Reclaiming Wonder

After the Sublime

Genevieve Lloyd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3311-2 (ISBN)

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Genevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. She draws especially on Flaubert, who influenced the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. She also reaches into contemporary debates on refugees, secularisation and climate change.

Genevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. Central to her argument is the claim that wonder has come to be largely eclipsed by the allure of the notion of the Sublime – a concept closely associated with Romantic Idealism.
Lloyd offers us a renewed sense of wonder, reconnected with its philosophical history, that plays a significant role in contemporary social critique. In her path to reclaim wonder, she moves between philosophical and literary sources. She draws especially on Flaubert's responses to Romanticism and his related treatment of stupidity, which influenced the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. She also reaches into contemporary debates on refugees, secularisation and climate change.

Genevieve Lloyd is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Her main research areas have been in History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature and Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of Reclaiming Wonder: After the Sublime (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Enlightenment Shadows (Oxford University Press, 2013), Providence Lost (Harvard University Press, 2008), Collective Imaginings(Routledge, 1999), Spinoza and the Ethics (Routledge, 1996), Part of Nature (Cornell University Press, 1994), Being in Time (Routledge, 1993) and The Man of Reason (2nd edn) (Routledge,1993).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Pause for Thought: Plato and Aristotle on Wonder

2. Passion or Distraction? Descartes and Spinoza on Wonder

3. Burke and Kant on the Sublime

4. Romanticism and the Allure of the Sublime

5. Wonder and Stupidity: Flaubert on Romanticism

6. Reconnecting with Socratic Wonder: Heidegger and Arendt

7. Derrida on Aporia, Time and Mortality

8. Political Wonder and Social Critique

9. Wonder and Transcendence

Conclusion: The Future of Wonder

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Incitements
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 190 mm
Gewicht	261 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4744-3311-1 / 1474433111
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3311-2 / 9781474433112
Zustand	Neuware