Vasalou Wonder

A Grammar
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5554-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vasalou, Sophia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

WONDER: An Emotion Unlike Others?

Doubting Wonder
Knowing Wonder

DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder between the Rainbow and the Harpies

Telling Wonder (I): Consequence
Telling Wonder (II): Concomitance
Short Tales from Wonder’s Ethical Past
The End of Wonder?

SUDDEN: On Seeing the Extraordinary; or: On the Different Ways of Being Struck

Wonder Striking
Stoking Wonder

PRODUCES: Practices of Wonder

Wonder as Doing, as Practice of Speech
Wonder as Doing, as Self-Undoing, as Aesthetic Conquest
Wonder as Doing, as Philosophical Ascent, as Askensis

OBJECT: Why Wonder?

Wonder as Stimulus: the Ethics of Inquiry
Wonder as Judgment: The Ethics of Sight
Wonder Judging Wonder: Sight as Self-Knowledge

Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sophia Vasalou is Research Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi and Honorary Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime and the editor of Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.