Wonder: a grammar

by Vasalou, Sophia

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Wonder : a grammar / Sophia Vasalou.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438455549, 1438455542
oclc:ocn907641263
LC Classification:B105.W65
Dewey Decimal:128/.3

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- WONDER: An Emotion Unlike Others? -- Doubting Wonder -- Knowing Wonder -- DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder between the Rainbow and the Harpies -- Telling Wonder (I): Consequence -- Telling Wonder (II): Concomitance -- Short Tales from Wonderâ€?s Ethical Past -- The End of Wonder? -- SUDDEN: On Seeing the Extraordinary; or: On the Different Ways of Being Struck -- Wonder Striking -- Stoking Wonder -- PRODUCES: Practices of Wonder -- Wonder as Doing, as Practice of Speech

Wonder as Doing, as Self-Undoing, as Aesthetic ConquestWonder as Doing, as Philosophical Ascent, as Askesis -- OBJECT: Why Wonder? -- Wonder as Stimulus: The Ethics of Inquiry -- Wonder as Judgment: The Ethics of Sight -- Wonder Judging Wonder: Sight as Self-Knowledge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index