Introduction: Wonder and the births of philosophy
Socrates' small difficulty
The wound of wonder
The death and resurrection of Thaumazein
The Thales dilemma
Repetition : Martin Heidegger
Metaphysics' small difficulty
Wonder and the "first beginning"
Wonder and the "other beginning"
Theaetetus redux : the ghost of the Pseudês Doxa
Once again to the cave
Rethinking Thaumazein
Openness : Emmanuel Levinas
Passivity and responsibility
The ethics of the cave
Infinity and astonishment
Opening out : from existent to existence
Closing down : from existence to existent
Locking up : totality and infinity
The phantom of the autrement
Awakening
Relation : Jean-Luc Nancy
The problem of Mitsein
Mitsein as essential inessentiality
The myth of essentialism
Unworking
Interruption
Il n'y a qu'il y a
Repetition
Decision : Jacques Derrida
Thaumazein, the irresponsible, and the undecidable
Hospitality
Undecidability revisited
Much madness is divinest sense (or, who comes after the decision?)
How to avoid the subject (or, "That's not my hedgehog!")
Undecidability, take three : "think here of Kierkegaard"
Mysterium tremendum
Postlude: Possibility.
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Strange wonder : the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. ISBN 9780231518598. Published by Columbia University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
