Front Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Practices of Wonder Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Wonder Toward a Grammar -- SUDDEN: On Being Struck -- Or: An Emotion Unlike Others? -- DELIGHT: Histories of Wonder, Or: The Rainbowversus the Harpies -- 2 From Biology to Spirituality The Emotional Dynamics of Wonder1 -- Biological Substrates of Emotion -- Evolutionary-Adaptive Foundations of Wonder -- Wonder and the Capacity for Higher-Order Thought -- Wonder as a Spiritual Experience -- Assessing Wonder-Driven Religiosity -- 3 Wonder and the Beginning of Philosophy in Plato -- 4 Wonder, Perplexity, SublimityPhilosophy as the Self-Overcoming of Self-Exile in Heidegger and Wittgenstein -- 1. Heidegger's Perplexity -- 2. Wittgenstein's Sublimity -- 5heidegger's Caves On Dwelling in Wonder -- Heidegger's Wonders -- Heidegger's Caves -- Once More to the Cave -- 6 Wonder and Cognition -- 7 The Microscopic Glance Spiritual Exercises, the Microscope, and the Practice of Wonder in Early Modern Science -- Objective and Mystical Experiences -- How to Produce a Series of Revelations at Will? -- The Microscope and the Practice of Wonder -- "To Contract Our Vain Pride into as Small a Point" -- 8 Literary Wonder in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of"Aesthetic Experience" -- Introduction -- 1. Rhetorical Wonder in Rebus and Verba -- 2. The Defenders of Wonder -- 3. The Neoclassicist Response -- 4. The "Marvelous in Discourse" and Aesthetic Experience -- 5. Beauty and Sublimity -- 9 The Conception of Camatkâra in Indian Aesthetics -- 10 Wonderment Today in the Abrahamic Traditions -- Back Cover.