Being Between: Conditions of Irish Thought

Being Between: 96 pp; ISBN 978 0 898332 35 3

“This idea of being in the middle or ‘being between’, of moving between different sets of extremities — between countries (Ireland and America), between religion and science, between philosophy and poetry, between knowledge and perplexity, between the particulars of reality and the universality of tghought, between receding youth and approaching age — is a constant motif in his work.” — Thomas Duddy, NUI Galway

William Desmond’s essay in intellectual autobiography is the fourth in a series of research papers commissioned by the Centre for for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The series is designed to bring innovative ideas from eminent scholars in the field of Irish Studies to as broad an audience as possible, and to provide, by its excellence and diversity, a model for future development of the discipline.