Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe - Rilegato

Rubenstein, Mary-jane

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ISBN 10: 0231146329 ISBN 13: 9780231146326

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and calculability, philosophy paradoxically secures itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility.

Strange Wonder locates a reopening of wonder's primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin Heidegger, for whom wonder is first experienced as the shock at the groundlessness of things and then as an astonishment that things neverthelessare. Mary-Jane Rubenstein traces this double movement through the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, ultimately thematizing wonder as the awesome, awful opening that exposes thinking to devastation as well as transformation. Rubenstein's study shows that wonder reveals the extraordinary in and through the ordinary, and is therefore crucial to the task of reimagining political, religious, and ethical terrain.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches in the fields of philosophy of religion, modern Christian thought, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.

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Book by Rubenstein MaryJane

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0231146329
• ISBN 13: 9780231146326
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256