The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinkingof the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects theanti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending acrossthe disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law, socialand political theory, literary criticism, feminism andarchitecture, this book stakes itself on a renewed potential forsustained critique. Against the grain of much contemporarythought, this work of criticism offers the reader a way beyond thespurious alternatives of "totalization" or acknowledgement of the"other". The Broken Middle expounds the phenomenology of thediremption of law and ethics. By reconstructing the suppressedpolitical history of modernity, it shows that contemporary thoughtbelongs to a tradition which has become ancient. Following thisdrama in the configuration of anxiety of beginning, equivocation ofthe ethical, and agon of authorship, the logos opens out of thepathos of the concept.