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Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond

Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond

Knepper, Steven E.
Desmond, William

Hardcover

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 1438489552
ISBN13: 9781438489551
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 1 2022
Pages: 293
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

William Desmond argues that philosophy, religion, and art begin in wonder. Desmond is widely recognized for his original metaphysics and his provocative philosophy of religion. Desmond's extensive writings on aesthetics, art, and literature, however, have received much less attention. Wonder Strikes is the first book-length examination of these dimensions of Desmond's thought. It offers nuanced commentary on his treatment of beauty and the sublime; his accounts of tragedy and comedy; and his argument that, having asked too much of art in modernity, we now ask too little. Desmond claims that art, philosophy, and religion must recover their ancient kinship and their shared roots in wonder if they are to counter the destructive instrumentalism of our time.

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