Wondrous strange
Subtitle: the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe
By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
Series: Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231146326; 9780231518598
Subjects: Wonder (Philosophy); Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Wonder and the births of philosophy; title: Socrates' small difficulty; title: The wound of wonder; title: The death and resurrection of Thaumazein; title: The Thales dilemma; title: Repetition : Martin Heidegger; title: Metaphysics small difficulty; title: Wonder and the first beginning; title: Wonder and the other beginning; title: Theaetetus redux : the ghost of the Pseudes Doxa; title: Once again to the cave; title: Rethinking Thaumazein; title: Openness : Emmanuel Levinas; title: Passivity and responsibility; title: The ethics of the cave; title: Infinity and astonishment; title: Opening out : from existent to existence; title: Closing down : from existence to existent; title: Locking up : totality and infinity; title: The phantom of the autrement; title: Awakening; title: Relation : Jean-Luc Nancy; title: The problem of Mitsein; title: Mitsein as essential inessentiality; title: The myth of essentialism; title: Unworking; title: Interruption; title: Repetition; title: Decision : Jacques Derrida; title: Thaumazein, the irresponsible, and the undecidable; title: Hospitality; title: Undecidability revisited; title: Much madness is divinest sense (or, who comes after the decision?); title: How to avoid the subject (or, that's not my hedgehog!); title: Undecidability, take three : think here of Kierkegaard; title: Mysterium tremendum; title: Postlude: Possibility.