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Book SynopsisThe 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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John MilbankTable of ContentsAcknowledgments.
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
