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Strange Wonder

The Closure Of Metaphysics And The Opening Of Awe

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, November of 2010 ‧
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Western philosophy's relationship to "wonder" is deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, 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. This study argues that by endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy, philosophy has secured itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility.Strange Wonder locates a reopening of this primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin Heidegger, whose "wonder" oscillates between a shock at the groundlessness of things and an astonishment that things nevertheless are. Mary-Jane Rubenstein traces this double movement through the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, tracing wonder as an awesome, awful opening that exposes thought to devastation as well as transformation. Insofar as wonder reveals the extraordinary through the ordinary, Rubenstein argues it is crucial to the task of reimagining political, religious, and ethical possibilities.

Strange Wonder

The Closure Of Metaphysics And The Opening Of Awe

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231146333
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November of 2010
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Collection: Insurrections: Critical Studies In Religion, Politics, And Culture
Categories: Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780231146333

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein (1977) é investigadora nas áreas da filosofia da ciência e da religião. É professora de Religião e Ciência na Wesleyan University, no Connecticut.
Foi copresidente da Unidade de Filosofia da Religião na Academia Americana de Religião. É membro da Sociedade Internacional para a Ciência e a Religião.

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