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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst 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\". \u003cem\u003eThe Broken Middle\u003c\/em\u003e expounds the phenomenology of the diremption of law and ethics. 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