In the Throe of Wonder: Intimations of the Sacred in a Post-Modern World
Jul 1992 · State University of New York Press
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This book is a meditation on the experiences of wonder, horror, and awe, and an exploration of their ontological import. It argues that these experiences are not, as our culture often presumes, merely subjective, emotive responses to events that happen in the world. Rather, they are transformative experiences that fracture our ordinary lives and, in so doing, provide us access to realities of which we would otherwise be oblivious. Wonder, horror, and awe, like the experiences of love and death to which they are so intimately related, are not events that happen in our world but events that happen to it and thus alter our life as a whole. Miller explores the impact of that transformation — its deconstructive effect on our ordinary sense of our selves, and the breakthrough to a new understanding of being which it makes possible.
About the author
Jerome A. Miller teaches philosophy at Salisbury State University in Maryland. He is the author of The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis.
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