ABSTRACT
What are we supposed to wonder at? The aim of this essay is to defend the possibility of wondering at the most common realities, at ordinary phenomena that can evoke true wonder at least as much as, if not more than, great phenomena. It is reason itself that is called into question in the experience of wonder. Angelus Silesius’s rose, which has no reason for its existence, or a dead leaf tells us better than anything else what wonder really is. Wonder is not what surprises or amazes us but rather what puts us in front of the truth of the world and of ourselves.
