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Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Paper, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14633-3
$26.50
/ £18.50
February, 2009
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14632-6
$50.00
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"One of the most gripping and timely accounts of Continental Philosophy . . . The reader can only come to the end of this book astonished." — Catherine Keller, Modern Theology
"In all, the book offers a new understanding of an influential sector of twentieth-century philosophy." — Jonathan Malesic, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"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