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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary-Jane RubensteinSeries:Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CPublish date:2010-11-23Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231146333ISBN-10:231146337UPC:9780231146333Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Movements, History & SurveysBook Topic:DeconstructionSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCTNMWV8M6

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 nevertheless are. 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231146333ISBN-10:231146337UPC:9780231146333Book Category:Religion, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy, Movements, History & SurveysBook Topic:DeconstructionSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCTNMWV8M6
Mary-Jane Rubenstein (PhD, Philosophy of Religion, Columbia) is Professor and Chair of Religion at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014) and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009) and the coeditor (with Catherine Keller) of Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, Materiality (Fordham, 2017).
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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