1.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0266664

Titolo

Rarefied gas flows theory and experiment / edited by W. Fiszdon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wien, : Springer, c1981

ISBN

3211815953

Descrizione fisica

524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

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.