Strange wonder
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
ISBN-13: 9780231146326; 9780231518598
Subjects: Wonder (Philosophy); Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: Wonder and the births of philosophy; value: Socrates' small difficulty; value: The wound of wonder; value: The death and resurrection of Thaumazein; value: The Thales dilemma; value: Repetition : Martin Heidegger; value: Metaphysics small difficulty; value: Wonder and the first beginning; value: Wonder and the other beginning; value: Theaetetus redux : the ghost of the Pseudes Doxa; value: Once again to the cave; value: Rethinking Thaumazein; value: Openness : Emmanuel Levinas; value: Passivity and responsibility; value: The ethics of the cave; value: Infinity and astonishment; value: Opening out : from existent to existence; value: Closing down : from existence to existent; value: Locking up : totality and infinity; value: The phantom of the autrement; value: Awakening; value: Relation : Jean-Luc Nancy; value: The problem of Mitsein; value: Mitsein as essential inessentiality; value: The myth of essentialism; value: Unworking; value: Interruption; value: Repetition; value: Decision : Jacques Derrida; value: Thaumazein, the irresponsible, and the undecidable; value: Hospitality; value: Undecidability revisited; value: Much madness is divinest sense (or, who comes after the decision?); value: How to avoid the subject (or, that's not my hedgehog!); value: Undecidability, take three : think here of Kierkegaard; value: Mysterium tremendum; value: Postlude: Possibility.