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Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231146326
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V9780231146326
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About Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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.
Reviews for Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
One of the most gripping and timely accounts of Continental Philosophy... The reader can only come to the end of this book astonished.
Catherine Keller Modern Theology In all, the book offers a new understanding of an influential sector of twentieth-century philosophy.
Jonathan Malesic Journal of the American Academy of Religion ...passionately argued and engagingly written.
Paul ... Read more
Catherine Keller Modern Theology In all, the book offers a new understanding of an influential sector of twentieth-century philosophy.
Jonathan Malesic Journal of the American Academy of Religion ...passionately argued and engagingly written.
Paul ... Read more