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Philosophy Begins in Wonder
An Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy, Theology, and Science
Edited by Michael Funk Deckard and Péter Losonczi
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Michael Funk Deckard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. He has taught History of Ideas, Philosophy, and Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), North Central College (Naperville, Illinois) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois). He also has published articles and reviews in journals such as The Heythrop Journal; British Journal of Aesthetics; Eighteenth-Century Thought; Bijdragen: International Journal in Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy in Review; Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, and Verbum: Analecta Neolatina.
Peter Losonczi is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of West Hungary. His publications include essays and books, among others the co-edited volumes Reflecting Diversity (LIT, Wien-Berlin-London, 2007), Religio Academici (Akademiai/Wolters Kluwer, Budapest, 2009) and From Political Theory to Political Theology (Continuum, London-New York, forthcoming 2010).
"Some very famous scholars have claimed that in the Enlightenment and Scientific worldview there is no place for wonder. Michael Funk Deckard and Peter Losonczi are to be congratulated for assembling such a fine, focused collection that, among its many virtues, dispels the myth of the disappearance of wonder at the dawn of Modernity. Plato and Aristotle agreed that philosophy begins in wonder, but famously disagreed about where it ends. Plato would not be surprised that even in knowing ages, wonder can be truth's consequence."
--Eric Schliesser, Leiden University
"This rich and provocative collection of essays could bear fruit in a dozen or more books, each of them already here in gist. May it be so."
--John Wilson, Editor, Books & Culture
"(This is) an illuminating collection of essays which traces the religious, scientific, and philosophical history of wonder, and which will be a much-needed and long-awaited aid to all those interested in exploring this important yet understudied topic."
--Sophia Vasalou, European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin