Nussbaum's politics of wonder : How the mind's original joy is revolutionary / Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bendik-Keymer, Jeremy David, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

In an unconventionally written 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..

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

ISBN:

9781350076105

1350076104

9781350076082

1350076082

9781350076099

1350076090

OCLC:

1348488818