Wonder
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Wonder

A Grammar

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Wonder

A Grammar

About this book

Wonder has been celebrated as the quintessential passion of childhood. From the earliest stages of our intellectual history, it has been acclaimed as the driving force of inquiry and the prime passion of thought. Yet for an emotion acknowledged so widely for the multiple roles it plays in our lives, wonder has led a singularly shadowy existence in recent reflections. Philosophers have largely passed it over in silence; emotion theorists have shunned it as a case that sits awkwardly within their analytical frameworks. So what is wonder, and why does it matter? In this book, Sophia Vasalou sketches a "grammar" of wonder that pursues the complexities of wonder as an emotional experience that has carved colorful tracks through our language and our intellectual history, not only in philosophy and science but also in art and religious experience. A richer grammar of wonder and broader window into its past can give us the tools we need for thinking more insightfully about wonder, and for reflecting on the place it should occupy within our emotional lives.

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Index
Abrams, Meyer H., 82, 113, 114
Addison, Joseph, 79
admiration, 13, 19, 43, 46, 53, 54, 65, 80, 189, 212, 221n2, 227n46, 238n81, 242n25, 253n3
aesthetic experience, 141–42
wonder as an, 60, 64, 65, 82, 89–91, 112–114, 140–54, 196
see also sublime; art
aesthetics of the infinite, 80, 155
Age of the Marvelous, 34, 35, 241n5
Albert the Great, 52, 62, 237n73
amazement, 14, 27, 28, 30, 73, 75–76
American Transcendentalists, 82, 114
anger, 44, 232n42
Annas, Julia, 233n57
anxiety, 44, 47, 50, 56, 59, 68–69, 177, 180–81, 183, 186, 187, 188
Aquinas, Thomas, 62, 75–76, 102, 162, 172, 186, 187, 260n70
connection of wonder to pleasure and fear, 52–53, 71–74
aporia, 56, 63, 116
appreciation, 111, 201
Aristotle, 6, 19, 36, 39, 43, 53, 62, 73, 74, 86–87, 172, 190–91, 236n68, 260n70
on greatness of soul, 159–61
on the usual versus the unusual as a source of pleasure, 67
on wonder as a source of pleasure, 33–34, 52
on wonder as a response to the familiar versus the unexplained or unfamiliar, 37, 56–57, 62
Platonic versus Aristotelian wonder, 55–59, 62–65, 67, 68
art,
literary or narrative, 34, 52, 53–54, 57, 96, 104, 105, 155, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. WONDER: An Emotion Unlike Others?
  8. DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder between the Rainbow and the Harpies
  9. SUDDEN: On Seeing the Extraordinary; or: On the Different Ways of Being Struck
  10. PRODUCES: Practices of Wonder
  11. OBJECT: Why Wonder?
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Back Cover