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Nussbaum's Politics of Wonder - How the Mind's Original Joy Is Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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Nussbaum's Politics of Wonder - How the Mind's Original Joy Is Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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In an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary
imagination of its readers, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explores how
wonder is central to Martha C. Nussbaum's normative project.
Nussbaum's work is opposed to the emotional and political
conditions of 'narcissism' - the tendency to seek to control the
wills of others in order to defend oneself against perceived
vulnerabilities. Our capacity for wondering is important for
growing beyond narcissism. Bendik-Keymer elaborates a politics of
wonder that is consistent with understanding this idea. Taking
issue with understandings of wonder viewing it as an emotion of
surprise or delight, he develops an alternate tradition finding
wonder in concert with the freedom of imagination found by degrees
within much of human understanding. The result is a constructive
rereading of Nussbaum's oeuvre, surprising for how it disencumbers
her work of some falsehoods surrounding anxiety and anger and for
the ways it implies an egalitarian politics of relational autonomy
more socialist than liberal. Misty Morrison's visual inquiry
accompanies the book creating space for the reader to wonder.
Morrison paints and prints how families involve wonder, starting
with moments in her child's life when she wonders what they might
see. Nussbaum's Politics of Wonder is an important contribution to
the philosophy of wonder and is crucial for understanding the work
of a leading philosopher.
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