1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158860703321

Autore

Schopenhauer Arthur

Titolo

Studies in pessimism : a series o essays / / by Arthur Schopenhauer ; selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lanham, Maryland] : , : Dancing Unicorn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5154-1338-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 pages)

Disciplina

809.93356

Soggetti

Pessimism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00102505

Autore

Resnick, Sidney I.

Titolo

A probability path / Sidney I. Resnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [etc.], : Birkhäuser ; Springer, 2014

Titolo uniforme

A probability path

Edizione

[Reprint of the 2005 edition]

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 453 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

60-XX - Probability theory and stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020]

90-XX - Operations research, mathematical programming [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300004303321

Autore

Willmott Glenn

Titolo

Reading for Wonder : Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment / / by Glenn Willmott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319700403

3319700405

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 226 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment, , 2946-3165

Disciplina

800

700

Soggetti

Literatur

Künste

Wunder

Umwelt

Literature - Philosophy

Comparative literature

Aesthetics

Poetry

Literary Theory

Comparative Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.  Yet this deeply felt experience-at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical-has been dangerously neglected in our cultural education.  In order to cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes, we need to teach ourselves and others to read for wonder.  This book begins by



unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human capacity and as a fabricated experience.  Ranging across poetry, foodstuffs, movies, tropical islands, wonder cabinets, apes, abstract painting, penguins and more, Reading for Wonder offers an anatomy of wonder in transmedia poetics, then explores its ethical power and political risks from early modern times to the present day.  To save ourselves and the teeming life of our planet, indeed to flourish, we must liberate wonder from ideologies of enchantment and disenchantment, understand its workings and their ethical ambivalence, and give it a clear language and voice.