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Autore |
Braider Christopher |
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Experimental Selves : Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe / / Christopher Braider |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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9781487518516 |
148751851X |
9781487518509 |
1487518501 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (442 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Self in literature |
Self-perception in art |
Self-knowledge, Theory of - History |
Europe |
Europe Vie intellectuelle |
Europe Intellectual life |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment; 1 The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression; 2 The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's Peepshow; 3 Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt's Individual; 4 Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre; 5 Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. |
6 The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Cleves7 Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant; Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
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Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an ""experimental"" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience |
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