Being Shaken Ontology and the Event [Hardcover]

Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.1. The First Jolts; Santiago Zabala and Michael Marder 2. Shaking at the Edge; Edward S. Casey 3. Traumatic Ontology; Richard Polt 4. The Ethical Ungrounding of Phenomenology: Levinas's Tremors; Michael Marder 5. In Any Event? Critical Remarks on the Recent Fascination With the Notion of Event; Jean Grondin 6. Insuperable Contradictions and Events; Gianni Vattimo 7. Being at Large: The Only Emergency Is the Lack of Events; Santiago Zabala 8. Medium and Revolution; Peter Trawny (translated by Sean Kirkland) 9. A Vibrant Silence: Heidegger and the End of Philosophy; Claudia Baracchi 10. What Gives? Heidegger and Dreyfus on the Event of Community; Gregory Fried 11. Truth Untrembling Heart; Babette Babich 12. Staging the Event: The Theatrical Ground of Metaphysical Framing; William Egginton 13. Rethinking the Event: Difference, Gift, Revelation; Carmelo Dotolo (translated by Philip Larrey)

A much-needed articulation of the disruptive potential of the event in contemporary philosophy. - Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York

Working between the purported sturdiness of Being and the purported inscrutability of the Event, this refreshing and clear-headed volume runs us up against foundations, certainties, means, and ends that are neither given nor absent, but rather shaken - by trauma, injustice, techno-economic shockwaves, and the escalating convulsions of our exhausted earth. A rare conjunction of ontology and embodiment; a hermeneutics of and for the shaken. - Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University and author of World's Without End and Strange Wonder

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