I feel wonder and awe at the grand mathematical structure of the universe, and to me that's exactly what the point was. I hope the author would agree. > Bennet

I feel wonder and awe at the grand mathematical structure of the universe, and to me that's exactly what the point was. I hope the author would agree. > Bennett, a political philosopher interested in the ethical dimensions of enchantment, which she treats more like a state of wonder, believes that enchantment is something “that we encounter, that hits us, but it is also a comportment that can be fostered through deliberate strategies.” > One of these strategies is “to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted. Disenchantment would be if knowing about Rayleigh scattering made rainbows less beautiful.