Strange wonder [Texte imprimé] : the closure of metaphysics and the opening of awe / Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Bibliogr. p. [197]-250

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.