| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) |
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Introduction; 1. Wonder Toward a Grammar ; SUDDEN: On Being Struck Or: An Emotion Unlike Others? ; DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder, Or: The Rainbowversus the Harpies ; 2. From Biology to Spirituality: The Emotional Dynamics of Wonder ; Biological Substrates of Emotion ; Evolutionary-Adaptive Foundations of Wonder ; Wonder and the Capacity for Higher-Order Thought ; Wonder as a Spiritual Experience ; Assessing Wonder-Driven Religiosity ; 3. Wonder and the Beginning of Philosophy in Plato ; 4. Wonder, Perplexity, Sublimity: Philosophy as the Self-Overcoming of Self-Exile in Heidegger and Wittgenstein ; 1. Heidegger's Perplexity ; 2. Wittgenstein's Sublimity ; 5. Heidegger's Caves: On Dwelling in Wonder; Heidegger's Wonders ; Heidegger's Caves ; Once More to the Cave |
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6. Wonder and Cognition; 7. The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science ; Objective and Mystical Experiences ; How to Produce a Series of Revelations at Will? ; The Microscope and the Practice of Wonder ; "To Contract Our Vain Pride into as Small a Point" ; 8. Literary Wonder in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of "Aesthetic Experience"; Introduction ; 1. Rhetorical Wonder in Rebus and Verba ; 2. The Defenders of Wonder ; 3. The Neoclassicist Response ; 4. The "Marvelous in Discourse" and Aesthetic Experience ; 5. Beauty and Sublimity ; 9. The Conception of Camatkâra in Indian Aesthetics; 10. Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions |
| Summary |
Wonder has been claimed as the beginning of philosophy by both Plato and Aristotle. Although an apparently similar claim, theessays in this collection represent a closer inspection of the difference in both location and content that define these two eminentthinkers' kinds of wonder. While Aristotle's understanding was outward-looking, directed to natural phenomena, and positioned at the beginning of inquiry with the assumption that explanation should purge it, Plato's before him was inward-looking, toward conceptual phenomena, and positioned not only at the beginning of inquiry but also as its |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on November 26, 2019) |
| Subject |
Wonder (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Wonder (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vasalou, Sophia, edit.r.
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| ISBN |
9780227901670 |
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0227901673 |
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