Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event [electronic resource] /
Marder, M.editor.
Zabala, S.editor.
Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The First Jolts; 1 Shaking at the Edge; 2 Traumatic Ontology; 3 The Ethical Ungrounding of Phenomenology: Levinas's Tremors; 4 In Any Event? Critical Remarks on the Recent Fascination with the Notion of Event; 5 Insuperable Contradictions and Events; 6 Being at Large: The Only Emergency Is the Lack of Events; 7 Medium and Revolution; 8 A Vibrant Silence: Heidegger and the End of Philosophy; 9 What Gives? Heidegger and Dreyfus on the Event of Community; 10 Truth Untrembling Heart
11 Staging the Event: The Theatrical Ground of Metaphysical Framing12 Rethinking the Event: Difference, Gift, Revelation; Index
Includes index.
Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.
Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Political philosophy.
History of Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Social Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Political Philosophy.