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The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society
Gillian Rose
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Paperback. The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti--philosophy and anti--theory of post--modernity. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HPCF; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 574.
The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law, social and political theory, literary criticism, feminism and architecture, this book stakes itself on a renewed potential for sustained critique. Against the grain of much contemporary thought, this work of criticism offers the reader a way beyond the spurious alternatives of "totalization" or acknowledgement of the "other".
The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law, social and political theory, literary criticism, feminism and architecture, this book stakes itself on a renewed potential for sustained critique. Against the grain of much contemporary thought, this work of criticism offers the reader a way beyond the spurious alternatives of "totalization" or acknowledgement of the "other".
The Broken Middle expounds the phenomenology of the diremption of law and ethics. By reconstructing the suppressed political history of modernity, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631182214
SKU
V9780631182214
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About Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose is the author of Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law, Hegel Contra Sociology and The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno.
Reviews for The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society
"... This book is one of the most important written by a British philosopher and social theorist in recent times." John Milbank