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

Author/creator Rubenstein, Mary-Jane
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesInsurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
Insurrections. ^A717266
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-250) and index.
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