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Wonder Wednesday

Wonder Wednesday

On wonder and childhood

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Hello, dear friends!

Today’s installment of Wonder Wednesday is on wonder and childhood.

Children are inquisitive by nature. Their ceaseless questioning suggests their fascination with—and wonder at—the world (“the wonder of all wonders,” writes Heidegger, “...that beings are”).

Childhood is an essential subject in Romantic poetry. In “Auguries of Innoce…

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