M. Marder & S. Zabala 
Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event 

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.

Table of Content

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)

About the author

Babette Babich, Fordham University, USA Claudia Baracchi, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Edward S. Casey, SUNY, Stony Brook, USA Carmelo Dotolo, Pontifical Urbaniana University and Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, Italy William Egginton, John Hopkins University, USA Gregory Fried, Suffolk University, USA Jean Grondin, Université de Montréal, Canada Sean Kirkland, Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, Germany Philip Larrey, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy Richard Polt, Xavier University in Cincinnati, USA Peter Trawny, Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, Germany Gianni Vattimo, University of Turin, Italy