Author: William Thomas Walsh File Type: epub Walshs greatest book--about Europes most powerful king ever. But more, it is a panorama of the entire 16th century. Covers the birth of Protestantism and the secret efforts to undermine Catholic unity, the Huguenot wars in France, the Sack of Rome, Great Siege, Battle of Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Council of Trent, etc. and, Henry VIII, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, St. Pius V, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius of Loyola, etc. Reads fast never bogs down. Beautiful hardbound gift edition! Individually shrink-wrapped for protection. **About the Author William Thomas Walsh was born in 1891 at Waterbury, Connecticut, and was a well-known historian, educator and author. His Spanish historical biographies on Isabella of Spain and Philip II have been internationally recognized and translated into Spanish, along with Saint Teresa of Avila and Characters of the Inquisition. He is also the author of the concise, popular Our Lady of Fatima booklet and various short stories and articles in magazines. William Walsh earned a B.A. from Yale in 1913 as well as an honorary Litt.D. from Fordham University. A year later he married Helen Gerard Sherwood, with whom he had six children. Mr. Walsh died in 1949.

Author: William Desmond File Type: pdf Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive and positive approach to the problem of difference and otherness. He systematically explores the question of dialectic and otherness by analyzing how human desire inevitably seeks immanent wholeness in a manner that opens it to irreducible otherness. He faces the difficulties bequeathed to Continental thought by Hegelian dialectic and its tendency to subordinate difference to identity, whether appropriately or not. Unlike many recent critics of Hegel, he argues that we must preserve what is genuine in dialectic. Granting the positive power of dialectic, Desmond offers his first articulation of a further philosophical possibility--what he terms the Metaxological--a discourse of the between, a discourse doing justice to desires search for wholeness without any truncating of its radical openness to otherness. In a wide-ranging yet unified discussion, Desmond tackles such issues as the nature of the self, the ambiguous restlessness and inherent power of being revealed by human desire, desires relation to transcendence, its openness to otherness in agapeic good will and in relation to the sublime as an aesthetic infinitude. Finally, Desmond brings this metaxological understanding to bear on the metaphysical question of the ultimate origin. This book is a remarkable introduction to Desmonds metaxological philosophy, prefiguring many of the ideas with which his later thought is associated. This second edition contains a substantial new preface and an afterword to each chapter in which Desmond reflects on the material from the standpoint of his current thinking. What splendid news that William Desmonds admirable, insightful, engaging, and--because of its Hegelian involvements--exasperating book is republished! It invites reflection on those conversations with others in which we become other to ourselves. . . . Desmonds book initiates just such a badly needed conversation with his readers. --Alasdair MacIntyre, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame At the time of its publication over twenty years ago Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness represented the appearance of a truly important and original philosophical voice. It exhibited critical mastery of the entire philosophical tradition and a rare ability both to sift through it and to penetrate to its original and originating core. It was a portend of much to come. And in hindsight, one can see in this still amazingly fresh work the seeds of Desmonds great trilogy in metaphysics, which has made him one of the essential philosophers of his generation. --Cyril O. Regan, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. **Review What splendid news that William Desmonds admirable, insightful, engaging, and--because of its Hegelian involvements--exasperating book is republished! It invites reflection on those conversations with others in which we become other to ourselves. . . . Desmonds book initiates just such a badly needed conversation with his readers. --Alasdair MacIntyre, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame At the time of its publication over twenty years ago Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness represented the appearance of a truly important and original philosophical voice. It exhibited critical mastery of the entire philosophical tradition and a rare ability both to sift through it and to penetrate to its original and originating core. It was a portend of much to come. And in hindsight, one can see in this still amazingly fresh work the seeds of Desmonds great trilogy in metaphysics, which has made him one of the essential philosophers of his generation. --Cyril O. Regan, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame About the Author William Desmond is currently Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. He taught at Loyola in Maryland before going to Leuven where he was Director of the International Program in Philosophy for thirteen years. He is the author of many books, including the trilogy Being and the Between (winner of the Prix Cardinal Mercier and the J. N. Findlay Award for best book in metaphysics, 1995-1997), Ethics and the Between, and God and the Between.