Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, USA. He authored The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity (2006), contributed to We Are All Explorers: Learning and Teaching with Reggio Principles in Urban Settings (2008), co-edited Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (2012), and recently wrote several books of literary philosophy.Misty Morrison is a figurative painter and printmaker. Her lithography is in the Ohio University Permanent Collection. Recent shows include Oblivion and The Family System I (“I ain’t got no home in this world anymore”).

• PROLOGUESETTING – WHEN PEOPLE NO LONGER WONDER,DOMINATION’S HOLDING DOWN THE SYSTEMIN THE READER’S VOICEMOTET 1 – WONDER IS THE MIND’S EXCITEMENTAND PROCEEDS BY GETTING LOST TEXTS: Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, Frontiers of JusticeWORD: “Lostness”MOTET 2 – HUMANS ARE BORN TO WONDER HOW ANOTHER'S WORLD IS POSSIBLETEXTS: Upheavals of Thought, Fragility of GoodnessWORD: “Devotion”“LIFE CYCLE”MOTET 3 – WONDER IS POLITICAL, HONEST IN OUR RELATIONSTEXTS: Love’s Knowledge, Political EmotionsWORD: “Honesty”MOTET 4 – CAN ANGER BE WONDERFUL?IT CAN SURFACE MORAL WRONGSTEXTS: Anger and Forgiveness, Therapy of DesireWORD: “Vulnerability”“WITH WONDER”THANKSSOURCESINDEX

Provides a remarkable phenomenology of the polyphonic gist of wondering, consisting of four mutually related motets (essays) on different aspects of wondering’s genealogy ... Inspiring and thought-provoking.