Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare

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Finn Thorbjørn Hansen Solveig Botnen Eide

Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing

Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Solveig Botnen Eide, Carlo Leget , Åshild Slettebø

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
17 March 2023

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Ethics & moral philosophy; Nursing research & theory

Series: Philosophical Practice

Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare approaches humanization and the process of re-enchantment in a radical new way. For more than a decade the call for rehumanization in education, care and welfare has been heard and discussed primarily in critical thinking, political theory, and sociological discourses. This critique is mainly based on a social constructivist and naturalistic worldview that keeps the discussion in an anthropocentric perspective. By focusing on the phenomenology and ethics of wonder as an ontological and even spiritual event, and by listening to the silence that follows this contemplative wonder, the contributors offer an existential, phenomenological, and hermeneutic way of understanding humanization.

Edited by Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Solveig Eide Botnen, and Carlo Leget, the book shows, from various perspectives, that the force of wonder and the silence that follows from it can nurture our ability to be receptive to and present in human relations and in resonance with the meaning-giving life phenomena that surround us.

Contributions by: Åshild Slettebø, Merel Visse
Edited by: Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Solveig Botnen Eide, Carlo Leget
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9781666911206
ISBN 10: 1666911208
Series: Philosophical Practice
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 17 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction (Finn Thorbjørn Hansen, Solveig Botnen Eide & Carlo Leget) Chapter 1: Apophatic and Existential Wonder as a Humanizing Force (Finn Thorbjørn Hansen) Chapter 2: Inner Space, Resonance, and Wonder (Carlo Leget) Chapter 3: The Case and Its Moral Requirements (Solveig Botnen Eide) Chapter 4: Perspectives on The Wonders of Sovereign Life Utterances and Care Ethics (Åshild Slettebø) Chapter 5: Your Thoughts Don’t Have Words Everyday (Merel Visse) Chapter 6: A Silent and Vibrant Place for Human Flourishing (Sine Maria Herholdt-Lomholdt) Chapter 7: To Wonder About Something and To Be in Wonder (Aslaug Kristiansen) Chapter 8: Listening to the Silence of Wonder and Reconquering Spaces for Human Flourishing (Claudia Welz) Chapter 9: Truth-telling in the Care of the Self (Randi Edland Kroken) Chapter 10: From Theoretical Reflections to Humanizing Practices: A Postscript (Carlo Leget & Finn Thorbjørn Hansen)

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen is professor in applied philosophy at the University of Aalborg. Carlo Leget is professor of care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Solveig Botnen Eide is professor of ethics in social work at the University of Oslo.

Reviews for Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of Health, Education, and Welfare

This is a wonderful collection of essays that brings philosophical texts and, not least, philosophical ways of thinking into fruitful dialogue with experiences of professional practice. Through its emphasis on issues such as wonder, calling, silence, and particularity, it moves beyond a simple eschewal of the tyranny of the logic of measurement, and calls for a renewed attentiveness to the quiet spaces and encounters in which the world and others more genuinely address us. -- James McGuirk, VID Specialized University and Nord University With equal measures of poetic thinking and critical scholarship, this volume truly rehumanizes and revitalizes the realms of health, education and welfare and show why they are not only important social and cultural pillars in our societies - but how they form a deeper ground for human belonging, wonder, and love. -- Soren Bengtsen