Reading for Wonder - Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Glenn Willmott
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	226
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-88880-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	3-319-88880-3
Barcode:	9783319888804

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