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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?

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Sophia Vasalou completed a PhD in Islamic theology at the University of Cambridge in 2006. She has since been a research fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and taught at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. She is the author of 'Moral Agents and Their Deserts' (2008). Sophia Vasalou completed a PhD in Islamic theology at the University of Cambridge in 2006. She has since been a research fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and taught at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. She is the author of 'Moral Agents and Their Deserts' (2008).

Review :
"...every essay should interest researchers in religious experience and ritual." Hugo Enrique Mendez, The University of Georgia, USA, in Theological Book Review (tbr), Vol. 25, No.2, 2013


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780227901670
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
  • ISBN-10: 0227901673
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 264


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