Maria Balaska Knihy

This book explores the concept of 'astonishment' through the works of Wittgenstein and Lacan, focusing on the challenges of articulating significant experiences. Maria Balaska argues that these difficulties reveal the groundlessness of our sense-making abilities, encouraging a creative engagement with meaning that enriches our lives.

"Anxiety versus fear, wonder versus curiosity are some of the ways in which philosophers have described encounters with nothing. What does it mean to be anxious in the face of nothing in particular, and to wonder at the mere fact that anything exists, rather than nothing? For Kierkegaard anxiety opens freedom, for Heidegger wonder is a distress and for Wittgenstein wonder and anxiety are deeply connected to the ethical"--