Recovery of Wonder

The New Freedom and the Asceticism of Power

By Kenneth Schmitz
Categories: Philosophy
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773528574, 152 pages, April 2005
Paperback : 9780773528581, 152 pages, April 2005
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773572621, 152 pages, April 2005

Description

While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge, Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not bite to the bone. In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized.