Strange wonder : the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe / Mary-Jane Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Mary-Jane.

Series:

Insurrections

Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wonder (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Wonder and the births of philosophy

Socrates' small difficulty

The wound of wonder

The death and resurrection of Thaumazein

The Thales dilemma

Repetition : Martin Heidegger

Metaphysics' small difficulty

Wonder and the "first beginning"

Wonder and the "other beginning"

Theaetetus redux : the ghost of the Pseudês Doxa

Once again to the cave

Rethinking Thaumazein

Openness : Emmanuel Levinas

Passivity and responsibility

The ethics of the cave

Infinity and astonishment

Opening out : from existent to existence

Closing down : from existence to existent

Locking up : totality and infinity

The phantom of the autrement

Awakening

Relation : Jean-Luc Nancy

The problem of Mitsein

Mitsein as essential inessentiality

The myth of essentialism

Unworking

Interruption

Il n'y a qu'il y a

Repetition

Decision : Jacques Derrida

Thaumazein, the irresponsible, and the undecidable

Hospitality

Undecidability revisited

Much madness is divinest sense (or, who comes after the decision?)

How to avoid the subject (or, "That's not my hedgehog!")

Undecidability, take three : "think here of Kierkegaard"

Mysterium tremendum

Postlude: Possibility

The opening of closure

Il n'y a qu'es spukt

Nearer than hands and feet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-250) and index.

ISBN:

9780231146326

0231146329

9780231518598

0231518595

OCLC:

237325125