Practices of Wonder

Autorentext

Sophia Vasalou is Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of 'Moral Agents and Their Deserts' (2008).

Klappentext

Wonder has been claimed as the beginning of philosophy by both Plato and Aristotle. Although an apparently similar claim, the essays in this collection represent a closer inspection of the difference in both location and content that define these two eminent thinkers' kinds of wonder.

Inhalt

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 4Wonder, 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 Camatkara in Indian Aesthetics - Michel Hulin 10 Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions - David B. Burrell, CSC Index of Authors