02945nam 22006735 450 991079313060332120230205051400.01-4875-1851-X1-4875-1850-110.3138/9781487518509(cabnvsl)slc87518509(cabnvsl)9781487518509(CKB)4100000006669639(MiAaPQ)EBC5509122(DE-B1597)513846(OCoLC)1110709937(DE-B1597)9781487518509(OCoLC)1051221974(MdBmJHUP)musev2_108015(EXLCZ)99410000000666963920190723d2019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExperimental Selves Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe /Christopher BraiderToronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]©20181 online resource (442 pages)1-4875-0368-7 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.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 experienceSelf in literatureSelf-perception in artSelf-knowledge, Theory ofHistoryEuropefastEuropeVie intellectuelleEuropeIntellectual lifeaesthetics.agency.art.experience.experiment.nature.person.sovereignty.Self in literature.Self-perception in art.Self-knowledge, Theory ofHistory.809.93384Braider Christopher, 248008DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793130603321Experimental Selves3798800UNINA