Wonder Strikes () von Steven E. Knepper

Foreword by William Desmond
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Incarnate Wonder

1. Aesthetics in Flesh, Image, and Word
Receptivity
Abundance
Affirmation
Wonder

2. The Call of Beauty
Call and Response
Between Beauty and the Sublime
Will Beauty Save the World?

3. The Artist and the Between
Between Imitation and Creation
Between Inspiration and Skill
Between Tradition and the Individual Talent

4. Sacred Aesthetics
Hierophany
The Sacred in a Time of Serviceable Disposability
God's Grandeur
Poetry, Prayer, and the Unsayable
Asking Too Much, Asking Too Little

Part II: Reading in the Between

5. Epiphanic Encounters
Criticism in the Metaxu
From Recognition to Epiphany
Epiphanic Things
The Poetry of Place

6. Tragic Howls and Being at a Loss
Macbeth, the Sleepless Tyrant
Lear, the Sleepwalking Sovereign
Philosophy at a Loss

7. Redemptive Laughs and Festive Rebirth
Laughter and Affirmation
Ahab's Absent Laugh
Can Philosophy Laugh at Itself?
The Festive in a Time of Need
Scrooge and Festive Anamnesis

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Name Index