Strange wonder : the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe / Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
| Author/creator | Rubenstein, Mary-Jane |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | xii, 256 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Insurrections: 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-250) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008032131 |
| ISBN | 9780231146326 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231146329 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231518598 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0231518595 (e-book) |