Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism

1 Placing Wonder: Merleau-Ponty, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology.- Thaumazein, Epistemological Wonder, and Ontological Wonder.- Merleau-Ponty and an Ontological Wonder.- New Materialism.- Object-Oriented Ontology.- Placing Wonder in the Flesh.- References.- 2 Aesthetics, Causality, and Operative Wonder.- The Aesthetics of Wonder.- Aesthetics of Wonder: Rare Experiences.- Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: Why Art Matters.- Aesthetic Causality and the Law of Noncontradiction.- Language and the Dramatization of Aesthetic Causality.- 1Q84: A World That Bears a Question.- References.- 3 Ontological Wonder as Operative Wonder.- Non-anthropocentric Wonder.- The End of Phenomenology and the Case for Realism.- Realism, Ontological Wonder, and Quantum Physics.- Onto-Cartography and Operative Wonder.- References.- 4 Museums, Gardens, and the Possibility for Care in Operative Wonder.- The Living Museum.- Cabinets of Curiosities.- Enchantment in the Museum.- Wonder on Display andEnchantment Gone Wrong.- Museums of Horror and Art Appreciation.- Wonder Beyond the Museum.- The Garden as Museum/Anti-Museum.- References.- 5 Toward a Weird Environmental Ethics.- Weird Environmental Ethics.- Weird Fiction.- Growing Things and Our Weird Departure.- Eco-Weird Worlds.- Speculative Eco-Weird Worlds.- Climate Change as an Eco-Weird World.- Trauma and the World of Climate Change.- Weird-Species Fields.- Weird Environmental Ethics.- The Second Door and the Invitation.- References.