| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Incitements |
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Incitements.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Pause for Thought: Plato and Aristotle on Wonder; 2. Passion or Distraction? Descartes and Spinoza on Wonder; 3. Burke and Kant on the Sublime; 4. Romanticism and the Allure of the Sublime; 5. Wonder and Stupidity: Flaubert on Romanticism; 6. Reconnecting with Socratic Wonder: Heidegger and Arendt; 7. Derrida on Aporia, Time and Mortality; 8. Political Wonder and Social Critique; 9. Wonder and Transcendence; Conclusion: The Future of Wonder; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema |
| Notes |
"Earlier version of material from chapters 1,2, and 7 was delivered in a lecture to the Australian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Confernece held at the Melbourne Campus of the Australian Catholic University, 4-6 December 2014, and subsequently published under the title Derrida and the 'Philosophical History of Wonder, ' in Parrhesia: A Critical Journal of Philosophy, no. 24, 2015, pp. 64-82"--Page, vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wonder (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Wonder (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474433129 |
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147443312X |
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9781474433136 |
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1474433138 |
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