China und Japan in der Kunstkammer der Brandenburghischen Kurfursten

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"In their authoritative study of wonder from the middle ages to the Enlightenment, Daston and Park (2001) define it as “a passion [that] registered the line between the known and the unknown” (p. 13). Lugli (1986, p. 123) describes it in similar terms, as “an intermediate, highly particular state akin to a sort of suspension of the mind between ignorance and enlightenment that marks the end of unknowing and the beginning of knowing.” It is this liminal condition, suspended in a threshold between knowing and unknowing, that prevents wonder from being wholly contained or recuperated as knowledge, and thus affords an opening onto the new. " [source: Maggie McLure, The Wonder of Data]