Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism
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 a...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Placing Wonder: Merleau-Ponty, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology
- Thaumazein, Epistemological Wonder, and Ontological Wonder
- Merleau-Ponty and an Ontological Wonder
- New Materialism
- Object-Oriented Ontology
- Placing Wonder in the Flesh
- References
- 2 Aesthetics, Causality, and Operative Wonder
- The Aesthetics of Wonder
- Aesthetics of Wonder: Rare Experiences
- Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: Why Art Matters
- Aesthetic Causality and the Law of Noncontradiction
- Language and the Dramatization of Aesthetic Causality
- 1Q84: A World That Bears a Question
- References
- 3 Ontological Wonder as Operative Wonder
- Non-anthropocentric Wonder
- The End of Phenomenology and the Case for Realism
- Realism, Ontological Wonder, and Quantum Physics
- Onto-Cartography and Operative Wonder
- References
- 4 Museums, Gardens, and the Possibility for Care in Operative Wonder
- The Living Museum
- Cabinets of Curiosities
- Enchantment in the Museum
- Wonder on Display andEnchantment Gone Wrong
- Museums of Horror and Art Appreciation
- Wonder Beyond the Museum
- The Garden as Museum/Anti-Museum
- References
- 5 Toward a Weird Environmental Ethics
- Weird Environmental Ethics
- Weird Fiction
- Growing Things and Our Weird Departure
- Eco-Weird Worlds
- Speculative Eco-Weird Worlds
- Climate Change as an Eco-Weird World
- Trauma and the World of Climate Change
- Weird-Species Fields
- Weird Environmental Ethics
- The Second Door and the Invitation
- References