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The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society
The Broken Middle Out of Our Ancient Society Author:Gillian Rose "The Broken Middle" offers a rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law, social and political theory, literary criticism, feminism and architecture, this book stakes itself on a renewed... more » potential for sustained critique. Against the grain of much contemporary thought, this work of criticism offers the reader a way beyond the spurious alterntives of "totalization" or acknowledgement of the "other". "The Broken Middle" expounds the phenomenology of the diremption of law and ethics. By reconstructing the suppressed political history of modernity, it argues that contemporary thought belongs to a tradition which has become ancient. Following this drama in the configuration of anxiety of beginning equivocation of the ethical, and agon of authorship, the logos opens out of the pathos of the concept.« less