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

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231146337
• ISBN13: 9780231146333
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher