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Practices of wonder : cross-disciplinary perspectives /
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 Arist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
James Clarke & Co.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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.