"Earlier version of material from chapters 1,2, and 7 was delivered in a lecture to the Australian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference held at the Melbourne Campus of the Australian Catholic University, 4-6 December 2014, and subsequently published under the title Derrida and the 'Philosophical History of Wonder,' in Parrhesia: A Critical Journal of Philosophy, no. 24, 2015, pp. 64-82."--Page vii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
Contents:
[9]. [1]. Wonder and Transcendence. [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.
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