The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient SocietyISBN: 978-0-631-18221-4
Paperback
356 pages
April 1992, Wiley-Blackwell
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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. 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 potential for
sustained critique. Against the grain of much contemporary
thought, this work of criticism offers the reader a way beyond the
spurious alternatives 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 shows 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.