Desmond, William 1951–

(William James Desmond)

PERSONAL: Born January 7, 1951, in Cork, Ireland; married October 2, 1972; wife's name, Maria; children: William, Hugh, Oisín. Education: University College, Cork, B.A., 1972, M.A., 1974; Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1978. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Office—Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain, Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium; fax: 32-16-326348. E-mail—william.desmond@hiw.kuleuven.ac.be.

CAREER: St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY, assistant professor, 1978–79; National University of Ireland, University College, Cork, lecturer in philosophy, 1979–80; St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland, lecturer in philosophy, 1981–82; Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, assistant professor, 1982–86, associate professor, 1986–88, professor, 1988–94, Thomas Higgins professor of philosophy, 1993–94, department chair, 1986–94; Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, professor of philosophy, 1994–. Catholic University of America, visiting professor, 1986; Bucknell University, Roy Wood Sellars lecturer, 1991; Catholic University of Louvain, visiting professor, 1992–93; Boston University, John N. Findlay professor of philosophy, 1997; Dharma Endowment lecturer in Bangalore, India, 1997–98; University of Beijing, visiting professor, 2000; John Carrol University, Aquinas lecturer, 2002; Maynooth University, Aquinas lecturer, 2003; University of Denver, Marsico visiting professor, 2004; University College, Galway, visiting fellow, 2005. Consultant to Maryland Council for the Humanities.

MEMBER: Metaphysical Society of America (vice president, 1993–94; president, 1994–95), Hegel Society of America (vice president, 1984–86; member of executive committee, 1986–90; president, 1990–92), Society of Philosophers in America (founding fellow), American Philosophical Association (member of executive council, 1994–97).

AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990; senior Fulbright fellow in Belgium, 1992–93; Cardinal Mercier Prize and J.N. Findlay Prize, Metaphysical Society of America, both 1995, both for Being and the Between.

WRITINGS:

Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1986.

Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1987.

(Editor) Hegel and His Critics: Philosophy in the Aftermath of Hegel, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1989.

Philosophy and Its Others: Ways of Being and Mind, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1990.

Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1992.

Being and the Between, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1995.

Perplexity and Ultimacy: Metaphysical Thoughts from the Middle, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1995.

(Translator and author of introduction) L. Heyde, The Weight of Finitude: Concerning the Philosophical Question of God, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1999.

(Editor, with Joseph Grange) Being and Dialectic, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2000.

Ethics and the Between, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2001.

(Editor) Beyond Conflict and Reduction: The Interplay of Philosophy, Science, and Religion, Louvain University Press (Louvain, Belgium), 2001.

Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Art and Philosophy, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2003.

Hegel's God: A Counterfeit Double?, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 2003.

(Editor, with Ignace Verhack and Paul Cortois) Godsdienst/Filosofisch Bekeken, Pelckmans (Uitgever, Belgium), 2003.

(Editor, with Paul Cruysberghs and Ernst Otto-Onnasch) Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism, Kluwer Publishing (New York, NY), 2004.

Is There a Sabbath for Thought? Between Religion and Philosophy, Fordham University Press (Bronx, NY), 2005.

General editor, "Series in Hegelian Studies," State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1989–, and "Louvain Philosophical Studies" series; series editor, "Studies van het Centrum voor Duits Idealisme." Ethical Perspectives, guest editor, 1998; and member of editorial board; member of editorial board or editorial consultant for Owl of Minerva, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, International Studies in Philosophy, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, and Inquiry.

Desmond's books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, and French.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Being Between: A Condition of (Irish) Thought?, a monograph, for the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, University College, Galway.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Kelly, Thomas, editor, Between Poetics and System: Themes in the Thought of William Desmond, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 2005.

PERIODICALS

Clio, summer, 1991.

Owl of Minerva, spring, 2005.

Review of Metaphysics, March, 1994, Alan M. Olson, review of Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy, p. 609; June, 2002, Joseph Grange, review of Ethics and the Between, p. 854; March, 2004, David Bachyrycz, Billy Lauinger, and Wilfried Ver Eecke, review of Hegel's God: A Counterfeit Double?, p. 616.