Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder
How the Mind’s Original Joy is Revolutionary
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 25 July 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350293618
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x154x18 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English 573
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Short description:
An original examination of the political resonance of the concept of 'wonder' in Martha Nussbaum's writings.
MoreLong description:
In an unconventionally written open access 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.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0. licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Table of Contents:
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PROLOGUE
SETTING - WHEN PEOPLE NO LONGER WONDER,
DOMINATION'S HOLDING DOWN THE SYSTEM
IN THE READER'S VOICE
MOTET 1 - WONDER IS THE MIND'S EXCITEMENT
AND PROCEEDS BY GETTING LOST
TEXTS: Aristotle's De Motu Animalium, Frontiers of Justice
WORD: ""Lostness""
MOTET 2 - HUMANS ARE BORN TO WONDER
HOW ANOTHER'S WORLD IS POSSIBLE
TEXTS: Upheavals of Thought, Fragility of Goodness
WORD: ""Devotion""
""LIFE CYCLE""
MOTET 3 - WONDER IS POLITICAL,
HONEST IN OUR RELATIONS
TEXTS: Love's Knowledge, Political Emotions
WORD: ""Honesty""
MOTET 4 - CAN ANGER BE WONDERFUL?
IT CAN SURFACE MORAL WRONGS
TEXTS: Anger and Forgiveness, Therapy of Desire
WORD: ""Vulnerability""
""WITH WONDER""
THANKS
SOURCES
INDEX
