Astonishment
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Astonishment

Essays on Wonder for Piero Boitani

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eBook - PDF

Astonishment

Essays on Wonder for Piero Boitani

About this book

Il naturale desiderio di conoscenza dell'uomo è la radice prima della meraviglia alla quale Aristotele riconduce l'origine della filosofia, della scienza e della poesia. La gioia particolare che deriva dal conoscere e dal meravigliarsi è assai maggiore, scrive Tommaso d'Aquino, quando deriva dal desiderio suscitato dalla consapevolezza della propria ignoranza e si scoprono cose nuove, verità prima sconosciute. Sono idee fondamentali per comprendere l'evoluzione del concetto di meraviglia che nel tempo si è aperto ad altri significati fino ad includere mirabilia e miracoli, e ad altre passioni, quali la sorpresa, lo stupore, la paura. I saggi raccolti in questo volume seguono le diverse ramificazioni dell'idea di meraviglia nei vari campi del sapere, dalla Bibbia alla letteratura, dalla fisica alla storia e alla filosofia, dall'antichità fino all'epoca contemporanea, a dimostrare la complessità di un'idea che fin dalle origini dell'umanità ha occupato un posto centrale nelle pratiche della conoscenza umana.

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Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9788893592741

Table of contents

  1. Indice del volume
  2. Why Wonder?
  3. Tabula gratulatoria
  4. Part I. A cross-disciplinary perspective
  5. Terence Cave, Wonder as a Mode of Thought: Aristotle, George Eliot, Marilynne Robinson
  6. Peter Dronke, Meravigliarsi: dall’antichità al Duecento
  7. Jean-Pierre Sonnet, He Who Makes Wonders. God’s Mirabilia in the Hebrew Bible Between Narrative and Poetry
  8. Michael Finkenthal, From marvelous complexity to the complexity of the marvelous
  9. Marco Tavani, Double Wonder: The Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics
  10. Zhang Longxi, Mirror of Enigma and Mirror of Magic: A Comparative Study
  11. Azadeh Yamini Hamedani, Wonder in the Flesh: Boitani in Santa Barbara MMIX
  12. Nick Havely, On the Tuscan Apennines: Wonders and Warfare
  13. Part II. From the Bible to contemporary literature
  14. Edmondo F. Lupieri, “E stupii vedendola, con grande stupore” (Ap. 17,6). Noterelle semiserie ed a tratti lamentose in onore di Piero Boitani
  15. Emilia Di Rocco, Towards the “stordimento d’animo”: Dante from Wonder to Astonishment
  16. Andrea A. Robiglio, Aquinas on Recognition
  17. Maria Luisa Ardizzone, The Wondrous Humble Plant of Purgatorio I (vv. 133-136). Introducing a Lost Meaning of the Second Cantica in Dante’s Commedia
  18. Gur Zak, Boccaccio’s Ulysses and the Limits of Heroism
  19. Gretchen Hendrick – Frederick M. Biggs, Decameron 3.9 and the Wife of Bath’s Tale
  20. Barry Windeatt, Chaucer and Wonder
  21. Jon Whitman, Wonderment: Apprehending the Arthurian World
  22. Peter Kuon, “Vis noua monstra?” Thomas More’s Response to New World Travelogues
  23. Francesca Bugliani Knox , From Admiration to Wonder: A Reading of John Donne’s Anniversaries
  24. Dominique Jullien, Wonder in Borges: the Final Chapters
  25. May Hawas, Some Observations on the Mediterranean Sublime: From C. P. Cavafy to Elena Ferrante
  26. Joerg O. Fichte, Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll Ulenspiegel in Wonderland: His Wondrous Survival in the Time of War
  27. Index of names

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