The Recovery of Wonder

The Recovery of Wonder

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  • Author: Kenneth L. Schmitz
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • ISBN: 9780773528581
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

"In Nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read." William Shakespeare Environmental degradation. Globalization. The closure of our public life to the transcendent dimensions of human existence. For esteemed philosopher Kenneth Schmitz these are the by-products of modernity and post-modernity. But The Recovery of Wonder is not a denunciation of modern philosophy. Instead, it seeks to point out what needs to be rethought at fundamental levels of our understanding and to show clearly how contemporary social concerns can be illuminated by a new look at the history of philosophy. While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge, Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not "bite to the bone." In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized.


Wonder and Beauty

Wonder and Beauty

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  • Author: Charla Miller
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781504361767
  • Category : Grief
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The birth of my healing came about in the most unusual and surprising way. My first session with my therapist came to a close and we were putting the horses away. We closed the gate and I took one more look at May, the mare, and put my fingers through the fence to reach for her. May gently pressed back on my fingers and in this silent moment her message to me was firm. This was my first personal communication with her and it was crystal clear: You are finally safe now.


Zak, My Boy Wonder

Zak, My Boy Wonder

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  • Author: Joanne Lythgoe
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789925763207
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

"Zak's amazing personality shines through to inspire others who encounter ostracism and unkindness because they look different."Kimberlee J Benart for Readers' Favorite - 5 stars After a whirlwind romance, imagine the excitement of discovering you're pregnant with a baby boy to complete your family. Then imagine your baby is critically ill, and the medical team you trusted to help, abandon you at the last moment. 'Zak, My Boy Wonder' is a short, harrowing but inspirational true story of a mother's fight for her son's survival and acceptance in society, and how the military authorities deserted her family when they needed them most.


Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

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  • Author: Brian Hisao Onishi
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031480279
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 171

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird fiction in particular) and quantum physics. More specifically, he argues that the focus of Weird fiction on impossible experiences and a feeling of something just beyond the limits of one’s grasp dramatizes the speculative reach beyond the limits of our understanding. But more than a tool for knowledge acquisition, wonder is an organizing property of objects. Like the collapse of superposition in quantum physics, reality is constituted when objects reveal themselves to other objects and thereby organize themselves into complex objects. Since no relation is exhaustive, the capacity to wonder remains at a material level, and the possibility of reorganization is ever present. Ultimately, Onishi argues for a speculative eco-phenomenology with wonder as an engine for a Weird environmental ethics.


Travellers' Tales of Wonder

Travellers' Tales of Wonder

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  • Author: Simon Cooke
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748675477
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.


The National Poland-China Record

The National Poland-China Record

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  • Author: National Poland-China Record Company
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Poland-China swine
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 958


Second Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 1977

Second Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 1977

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  • Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Budget
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 108


Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

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  • Author: Jeremy K. Brown
  • Publisher: Infobase Publishing
  • ISBN: 1438134223
  • Category : African American musicians
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 113

Presents the life and musical career of the blind singer and musician Stevie Wonder.


The last vials: being a series of essays upon the subject of the second advent. Publ. separately in the year 1846. By a clergyman [R.A. Purdon]. 10th ser.; 17th year, no.1-28th year, no.4

The last vials: being a series of essays upon the subject of the second advent. Publ. separately in the year 1846. By a clergyman [R.A. Purdon]. 10th ser.; 17th year, no.1-28th year, no.4

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  • Author: Robert A. Purdon
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76


The Dual Disorders Recovery Book

The Dual Disorders Recovery Book

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  • Author: Anonymous
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1592857655
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

This compelling Dual Disorders Recovery Book, written for those with an addiction and a psychiatric illness, provides a source of information and support throughout recovery. This compelling book The Dual Disorders Recovery Book, written for those of us with an addiction and a psychiatric illness, provides a source of information and support throughout our recovery. Personal stories offer experience, strength, and hope as well as expert advice. The book offers information on how Steps 1-5 apply specifically to us. An appendix includes a "Blueprint for Recovery," the meeting format of Dual Recovery Anonymous, and self-help resources.