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

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

March, 2009
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14632-6
$45.00 / £31.00

"Strange Wonder is a very fine combination of lucid exposition of extremely intractable material, meticulous scholarship, and a genuinely original contribution to burning issues in contemporary philosophy, theology, and philosophical theology." — Denys Turner, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Yale University

"Astonishingly, there exists no real substantive treatment of the theme of wonder in Western philosophy. This book at last provides one, arguing that the entire history of philosophy and theology in the West is involved in an undermining of its essential starting-point. Strange Wonder is beautifully written and the discussions are subtle and deft. It far and away excels other recent treatments of ethical decision making in the wake of Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and, as mentioned, negotiates a topic so far untouched, and with philosophical elegance." — C.J.C. Pickstock, reader of philosophy and theology, University of Cambridge

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion

Series

• Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

About the Author

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches in the fields of philosophy of religion, modern Christian thought, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.

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