1 Placing Wonder: Merleau-Ponty, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology -- Thaumazein, Epistemological Wonder, and Ontological Wonder -- Merleau-Ponty and an Ontological Wonder -- New Materialism -- Object-Oriented Ontology -- Placing Wonder in the Flesh -- References -- 2 Aesthetics, Causality, and Operative Wonder -- The Aesthetics of Wonder -- Aesthetics of Wonder: Rare Experiences -- Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: Why Art Matters -- Aesthetic Causality and the Law of Noncontradiction -- Language and the Dramatization of Aesthetic Causality -- 1Q84: A World That Bears a Question -- References -- 3 Ontological Wonder as Operative Wonder -- Non-anthropocentric Wonder -- The End of Phenomenology and the Case for Realism -- Realism, Ontological Wonder, and Quantum Physics -- Onto-Cartography and Operative Wonder -- References -- 4 Museums, Gardens, and the Possibility for Care in Operative Wonder -- The Living Museum -- Cabinets of Curiosities -- Enchantment in the Museum -- Wonder on Display and Enchantment Gone Wrong -- Museums of Horror and Art Appreciation -- Wonder Beyond the Museum -- The Garden as Museum/Anti-Museum -- References -- 5 Toward a Weird Environmental Ethics -- Weird Environmental Ethics -- Weird Fiction -- Growing Things and Our Weird Departure -- Eco-Weird Worlds -- Speculative Eco-Weird Worlds -- Climate Change as an Eco-Weird World -- Trauma and the World of Climate Change -- Weird-Species Fields -- Weird Environmental Ethics -- The Second Door and the Invitation -- References.
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Onishi, Brian Hisao, author.
Title
Weird wonder in Merleau-Ponty, object-oriented ontology, and new materialism / Brian Hisao Onishi.