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Strange wonder

the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe

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the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe

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Strange Wonder
2012, Columbia University Press
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2008, Columbia University Press
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Table of 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 Pseudes 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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Series
Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
190
Library of Congress
B105.W65 R83 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21836646M
ISBN 13
9780231146326, 9780231518598
LCCN
2008032131
Goodreads
5984011

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