William Desmond

770 citations
80 papers · 187 indexed · h-index 7

Impact in

  • Philosophy top 5%
    • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
    • Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
    • Philosophy and Historical Thought
    • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
    • Theology and Philosophy of Evil
    • Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

Papers in

    • Classical Philosophy and Thought 7
    • Philosophy and Historical Thought 6
    • Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism 5
    • Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel 2
    • Biblical Studies and Interpretation 3

William Desmond

46 papers receiving 133 citations

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William Desmond
Comparison fields: 5 of 55
  • Philosophy 88
  • Religious studies 13
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 9
  • Anthropology 16
  • History and Philosophy of Science 7
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All Works

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#Work
1
Flux-Gibberish: For and against Heraclitus
20170
2 20161
3
The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis
20060
4 20051
5
20050
6
Punishments and the Conclusion of Herodotus’ Histories
20043
7 20036
8 20021
9
Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science, and Religion
20011
10
Back to the Rough Ground: "Phronesis' and 'Techne' in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle
19953
11
Being, Determination, and Dialectic: On the Sources of Metaphysical Thinking
19952
12
Between finitude and infinity: Hegelian reason and the Pascalian heart
19951
13 19928
14
Hegel and his critics : philosophy in the aftermath of Hegel
19899
15
Philosophy and Failure
19883
16
The Philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling: History, System, and Freedom
19862
17
Hegel, History and philosophical contemporaneity
19810
18 19810
19 19816
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Plato's philosophical art and the identification of the sophist
19790

About William Desmond

William Desmond is a scholar working on Philosophy, Religious studies, Anthropology, Classics and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 80 papers that have together received 187 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Classical Philosophy and Thought (7 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (7 papers), Philosophy and Historical Thought (6 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 papers), Classical Antiquity Studies (3 papers), Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (3 papers), Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 papers) and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (88 citations), Religious studies (13 citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (9 citations), Anthropology (16 citations) and History and Philosophy of Science (7 citations). William Desmond has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Mark W. Roche, Peter Farb, George J. Armelagos, Gary Shapiro, J. M. Bernstein, Richard Eldridge, Stephen Mulhall, Anthony J. Cascardi, William Rothman and Willis Goth Regier. Their work appears in journals such as Irish Theological Quarterly, Classical Philology, The German Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy and MLN.

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