Chapter
1 Wonder: Toward a Grammar
SUDDEN: On Being Struck; Or: An Emotion Unlike Others?
DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder, Or: The Rainbow versus the Harpies
2 From Biology to Spirituality: The Emotional Dynamics of Wonder
Biological Substrates of Emotion
Evolutionary-Adaptive Foundations of Wonder
Wonder and the Capacity for Higher-Order Thought
Wonder as a Spiritual Experience
Assessing Wonder-Driven Religiosity
3 Wonder and the Beginning of Philosophy in Plato
4 Wonder, Perplexity, Sublimity: Philosophy as the Self-Overcoming of Self-Exile in Heidegger and Wittgenstein
1. Heidegger’s Perplexity
2. Wittgenstein’s Sublimity
5. Heidegger’s Caves: On Dwelling in Wonder
7 The Microscopic Glance: Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science
Objective and Mystical Experiences
How to Produce a Series of Revelations at Will?
The Microscope and the Practice of Wonder
“To Contract Our Vain Pride into as Small a Point”
8 Literary Wonder in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of“Aesthetic Experience”
1. Rhetorical Wonder in Rebus and Verba
2. The Defenders of Wonder
3. The Neoclassicist Response
4. The “Marvelous in Discourse” and Aesthetic Experience
9 The Conception of Camatkâra in Indian Aesthetics
10 Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions
Practices of Wonder
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