Maria Balaska

Anxiety and Wonder (eBook, PDF)

On Being Human

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder and anxiety - what it means to prepare for them, what life may look like after experiencing them, and what insights we can take from those experiences.

For Kierkegaard anxiety is a door to freedom, for Heidegger wonder is a distress that opens us to the truth of Being, and for Wittgenstein wonder and anxiety are deeply connected to the ethical. Drawing on themes from these thinkers and bringing them into dialogue, Balaska argues that in our encounters with nothing we encounter the very potential of our existence. Most importantly, we confront what is most inconspicuous and fundamental about the human condition and what makes it possible to encounter anything at all: our distinct capacity for making sense of things.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350302945
• Artikelnr.: 69905583

Autorenporträt

Maria Balaska is a Research Fellow at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: Meaning, and Astonishment (2019) and editor of Cora Diamond on Ethics (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. What Makes Us
Anxious? 2. Anxiety and the Origin of Human Existence 3. Wonder and the
Origin of Philosophy 4. The Paradox of Anxiety and Wonder 5. After Anxiety
and Wonder Notes Bibliography Index