On Wonder - Literature and Science in the Long Eighteenth Century

This is an Element about wonder - as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Studying wonder in the long eighteenth century helps us to understand our current disciplinary configurations and provides the potential for a more critical practice.

List of contents

1. Why wonder; 2. Defining wonder; 3. Science's wonder; 4. Wonder as veneration; 5. Wonder's science; 6. To know with wonder; 7. Wonder's subjunctive mood; 8. The ends of wonder; References.

Product details

• Authors: Tita (University of Maryland) Chico, Chico Tita
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781108792646
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79264-6
• No. of pages: 78
• Series: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Philosophy of Science, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge