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Reading for Wonder - Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Reading for Wonder - Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences,
wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected
ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt
experience-at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical-has been
dangerously neglected in our cultural education. In order to
cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes,
we need to teach ourselves and others to read for wonder. This book
begins by unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human
capacity and as a fabricated experience. Ranging across poetry,
foodstuffs, movies, tropical islands, wonder cabinets, apes,
abstract painting, penguins and more, Reading for Wonder offers an
anatomy of wonder in transmedia poetics, then explores its ethical
power and political risks from early modern times to the present
day. To save ourselves and the teeming life of our planet, indeed
to flourish, we must liberate wonder from ideologies of enchantment
and disenchantment, understand its workings and their ethical
ambivalence, and give it a clear language and voice.
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