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The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti--philosophy and anti--theory of post--modernity.

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"... This book is one of the most important written by a British philosopher and social theorist in recent times." John Milbank

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Diremption of Spirit.

Part One From the Middle in the Beginning.

1. Personae of the System: Kierkegaard, Hegel and Blanchot.

2. Regina and Felice - In Repetition of Her: Kierkegaard and Kafka.

3. Anxiety of Beginning: Kierkegaard, Freud and Lacan.

Part Two From the Beginning in the Middle.

4. Repetition in the Feast: Mann and Girard.

5. Love and the State: Varnhagen, Luxemburg and Arendt.

6. New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation: Levinas, Rosenzweig and Fackenheim.

Preface: Pathos of the Concept.

Select Bibliography.

Index

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 12 February 1992
      ISBN-13 9780631182214
      978-0631182214
      ISBN-10 0631182217
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      History European history Politics, Philosophy & Society Cultural studies Philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti--philosophy and anti--theory of post--modernity.

      Trade Review
      "... This book is one of the most important written by a British philosopher and social theorist in recent times." John Milbank

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments.

      Introduction: Diremption of Spirit.

      Part One From the Middle in the Beginning.

      1. Personae of the System: Kierkegaard, Hegel and Blanchot.

      2. Regina and Felice - In Repetition of Her: Kierkegaard and Kafka.

      3. Anxiety of Beginning: Kierkegaard, Freud and Lacan.

      Part Two From the Beginning in the Middle.

      4. Repetition in the Feast: Mann and Girard.

      5. Love and the State: Varnhagen, Luxemburg and Arendt.

      6. New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation: Levinas, Rosenzweig and Fackenheim.

      Preface: Pathos of the Concept.

      Select Bibliography.

      Index

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