03265nam 2200661Ia 450 991082718360332120240417032408.01-4384-3231-31-4416-8696-7(CKB)2670000000090141(OCoLC)710993092(CaPaEBR)ebrary10573992(SSID)ssj0000469161(PQKBManifestationID)11288775(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469161(PQKBWorkID)10510344(PQKB)11351235(MiAaPQ)EBC3407131(MdBmJHUP)muse1704(Au-PeEL)EBL3407131(CaPaEBR)ebr10573992(DE-B1597)682043(DE-B1597)9781438432311(EXLCZ)99267000000009014120100112d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFigures of simplicity[electronic resource] sensation and thinking in Kleist and Melville /Birgit Mara Kaiser1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20111 online resource (172 p.) SUNY series, intersections: philosophy and critical theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-3229-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.Introduction: on subterranean connections -- Aesthetics: sensation and thinking reconsidered -- Sentimentalities -- Affectivity -- Insistence.Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature—Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten—in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of "simpletons" that populate the writings of Kleist and Melville. These figures are not entirely ignorant, or stupid, but simple. Their simplicity is a way of thinking; one that author Birgit Mara Kaiser here suggests is affective thinking. Kaiser avers that Kleist and Melville are experimenting in their texts with an affective mode of thinking, and thereby continue, she argues, a key line within eighteenth-century aesthetics: the relation of rationality and sensibility. Through her analyses, she offers an outline of what thinking can look like if we take affectivity into account.Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)Comparative literatureAmerican and GermanComparative literatureGerman and AmericanSenses and sensation in literatureThought and thinking in literatureComparative literatureAmerican and German.Comparative literatureGerman and American.Senses and sensation in literature.Thought and thinking in literature.813/.3Kaiser Birgit Mara1685014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827183603321Figures of simplicity4056825UNINA