Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Event: (more regular event listings to return tomorrow)Chris Moore presents:
Tomorrow afternoon (Tues, 4pm, Rocky 1), we will have a nice discussion about "awe."
Suggest that other interested parties attend.
Questions you can ask in the Q&A session:
-What two familiar emotions does awe comprise?
-I'd like to know what it mean to have ambivalent feelings. Actually, never mind.
-What is the dark underbelly of awe?
-Is it funny to ask C. Moore, "Has your day been pretty awesome?"
-What's the most awesome thing possible?
-Can one be in awe of oneself, especially if one deserves it?
-Why can we be wrong about what emotion we're feeling?
-Is the "Airport" wireless network awesome?
NB: I regret that, due to our venue, we will be unable to guarantee intense emotional affect consequent to this lecture. With your permission, we will provide you instead with mild intellectual "curiosity" and the attitude of salience, called "interest." There might be "laughter" in the third section of the talk.
Selected bibliography if you wish to prepare for the lecture:
Burke (1757), "Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful"
DeLillo (1985), "White Noise"
Dillard (1975), "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
Heschel (1950), "God in Search of Man"
Kant (1793), "Critique of Judgment"
Onion, The (1999), "Our Dumb Century"
Otto (1895), "The Idea of the Holy"
Parsons (1969), "Philosophy of Wonder," PAPR 30(1)
Sluckin (1979), "Fear in Animals and Man"
Weiskel (1978), "Romantic Sublime"
Wilson (1980), "Biophilia"
Posted by Andrew Grossman at 11:56 AM
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