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Author: Péter Losonczi ,
Michael Funk Deckard
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780227173725
ISBN 10: 0227173724
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 27 October 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Both Plato and Aristotle have put forward that philosophy begins with wonder, although they didn't take the time to define exactly what wonder is. The authors of this book examine the role of wonder in the science, philosophy and theology of early modernity - the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. First of all, it aims to demonstrate how the evolutions and progressions in natural theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and philosophy during those two centuries finally gave birth to a complex history of the passion of wonder - a history in which can be found as well the elements of continuity, criticism and reformulation. How did modern philosophy and science appear? According to very famous academics, in the Enlightenment and its scientific conception of the world, there is no place for wonder. This book however, as it draws a panorama of the history of wonder, manages to change the way modern Europe is perceived. The myth of wonder's disappearance vanishes as modernity rises.' Dialogo Filosofico, May/August 2012
'Both Plato and Aristotle have put forward that philosophy begins with wonder, although they didn't take the time to define exactly what wonder is. The authors of this book examine the role of wonder in the science, philosophy and theology of early modernity - the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. First of all, it aims to demonstrate how the evolutions and progressions in natural theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and philosophy during those two centuries finally gave birth to a complex history of the passion of wonder - a history in which can be found as well the elements of continuity, criticism and reformulation. How did modern philosophy and science appear? According to very famous academics, in the Enlightenment and its scientific conception of the world, there is no place for wonder. This book however, as it draws a panorama of the history of wonder, manages to change the way modern Europe is perceived. The myth of wonder's disappearance vanishes as modernity rises.' Dialogo Filosofico, May/August 2012 'Deckard and Losonczi demonstrate quite successfully that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophical developments did not exclude 'wonder' while still maintaining a rigorous scientific position of experimentation and hypothesis, criticism, and reformulation.' P. H. Brazier, Heythrop Journal, Vol. 55, Issue 1, January 2014
Author Information
Michael Funk Deckard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. He has taught History of Ideas, Philosophy, and Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), North Central College (Naperville, Illinois) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois). He also has published articles and reviews in journals such as The Heythrop Journal; British Journal of Aesthetics; Eighteenth-Century Thought; Bijdragen: International Journal in Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy in Review; Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, and Verbum: Analecta Neolatina. Dr Péter Losonczi is a Research Associate at the Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. He is also Director of the International Research Network on Religion and Democracy.
