Mary-Jane Rubenstein will present a lecture related to her 2009 publication, Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia University Press). This book describes wonder as a response to the sudden strangeness of the everyday, and shows that while Western philosophy claims to be founded upon this pathos, it also does all it can to eradicate it for the sake of certainty and calculability. Insofar as wonder attunes itself to what seems unthinkable, even impossible, Rubenstein ultimately suggests that remaining with its indeterminacy might open thinking, creative expression, and the political onto a new terrain. Rubenstein teaches philosophy of religion at Wesleyan University, where she is Assistant Professor of Religion and of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. This event was organized by the artist Ian Rosen.