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A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the concept of wonder and its significance in religion, philosophy, the arts and the sciences.
Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of scientific quests and their fruit; as the aim of art and the means art uses to accomplish its aims; and as the religious experience par excellence and the hallmark of a deeper spiritual life. Yet despite the special relationship it has borne to many of our most highly valued intellectual and spiritual practices, wonder remains a neglected and understudied notion. This volume aims to redress this neglect, bringing together a collection of essays drawn from different disciplines to consider the sense of wonder from a number of complementary perspectives. What is wonder? What role has it historically played in philosophy, science, art and aesthetics, and the religious or spiritual life? Can wonder be dangerous? Is wonder an experience in which we should, or indeed could, aspire to dwell? Why, among human experiences, should it be prized?
Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of scientific quests and their fruit; as the aim of art and the means art uses to accomplish its aims; and as the religious experience par excellence and the hallmark of a deeper spiritual life. Yet despite the special relationship it has borne to many of our most highly valued intellectual and spiritual practices, wonder remains a neglected and understudied notion. This volume aims to redress this neglect, bringing together a collection of essays drawn from different disciplines to consider the sense of wonder from a number of complementary perspectives. What is wonder? What role has it historically played in philosophy, science, art and aesthetics, and the religious or spiritual life? Can wonder be dangerous? Is wonder an experience in which we should, or indeed could, aspire to dwell? Why, among human experiences, should it be prized?
Price: $36.95
Pages: 264
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
31 January 2013
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780227173954
Format: Paperback
...every essay should interest researchers in religious experience and ritual.
— Hugo Enrique Mendez
— Hugo Enrique Mendez
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Sophia Vasalou
1 Wonder: Toward a Grammar - Sophia Vasalou
2 From Biology to Spirituality: The Emotional Dynamics of Wonder - Robert Fuller
3 Wonder and the Beginning of Philosophy in Plato - Sylvana Chrysakopoulou
4 Wonder, Perplexity, Sublimity: Philosophy as the Self-Overcoming of Self-Exile in Heidegger and Wittgenstein - Stephen Mulhall
5 Heidegger's Caves: On Dwelling in Wonder - Mary-Jane Rubenstein
6 Wonder and Cognition - Derek Matravers
7 The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science - Claude Olivier Doron
8 LiteraryWonder in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of "Aesthetic Experience" - Alexander Rueger
9 The Conception of Camatkâra in Indian Aesthetics - Michel Hulin
10 Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions - David B. Burrell, CSC
Index of Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Sophia Vasalou
1 Wonder: Toward a Grammar - Sophia Vasalou
2 From Biology to Spirituality: The Emotional Dynamics of Wonder - Robert Fuller
3 Wonder and the Beginning of Philosophy in Plato - Sylvana Chrysakopoulou
4 Wonder, Perplexity, Sublimity: Philosophy as the Self-Overcoming of Self-Exile in Heidegger and Wittgenstein - Stephen Mulhall
5 Heidegger's Caves: On Dwelling in Wonder - Mary-Jane Rubenstein
6 Wonder and Cognition - Derek Matravers
7 The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science - Claude Olivier Doron
8 LiteraryWonder in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of "Aesthetic Experience" - Alexander Rueger
9 The Conception of Camatkâra in Indian Aesthetics - Michel Hulin
10 Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions - David B. Burrell, CSC
Index of Authors