Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Synopsis

Wonder: Toward A Grammar / Sophia Vasalou -- From Biology To Spirituality: The Emotional Dynamics / Robert Fuller -- Wonder And The Beginning Of Philosophy In Plato / Sylvana Chrysakopoulou -- Wonder, Perplexity, Sublimity: Philosophy As The Self-overcoming Of Self-exile In Heidegger And Wittgenstein / Stephen Mulhall -- Heidegger's Caves: On Dwelling In Wonder / Mary-jane Rubenstein -- Wonder And Cognition / Derek Matravers -- The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, The Microscope, And The Practice Of Wonder In Early Modern Science / Claude-olivier Doron -- Literary Wonder In The Seventeenth Century And The Origins Of Aesthetic Experience / Alexander Rueger -- The Conception Of Camatkâra In Indian Aesthetics / Michel Hulin -- Wonderment Today In The Abrahamic Traditions / David B. Burrell. Edited By Sophia Vasalou. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.