Andrew Benjamin teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick. His publications include Translation and the Nature of Philosophy and Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde, both Routledge.

• Beginning, Opening presentation, The new again, Furthering beginning, Beginning again: naming beginning, Descartes’ body of forgetting, Descartes’ ‘thing’, Intermezzo: conflict naming, Hegel’s ‘need’, Hegel’s fruit, After fruit, Intermezzo: necessary relations, Opening gifts, In Heidegger’s gift—sacrifice, Giving again, From here to eternity, Approaching events again, Working through, Translating repeating, Repeating—the open ended

`In a set of illuminating and provacative readings of Descartes, Hegel and Heidegger, Benjamin demonstrates that to think philosophically means to rework philosophy, to deploy it anew, each time as if for the first time, in the abeyance of traditions. Through multifaceted and profound analyses, this book explores the ontological and temporal consequences of such an approach to thinking for philosophy, and seeks to reconceive it in terms of singularity and an ontology of the event.' - Professor Rodolphe Gasche