LEADER 03741nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910811200303321 005 20221019170005.0 010 $a0-8166-8268-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000339921 035 $a(EBL)1128330 035 $a(OCoLC)830169376 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000833939 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12365696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000833939 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10955116 035 $a(PQKB)10602676 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1128330 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30007 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1128330 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10660876 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000339921 100 $a20120912d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe primitive, the aesthetic, and the savage $ean Enlightenment problematic /$fTony C. Brown 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7562-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: An enlightenment problematic -- The primitive -- The aesthetic -- The savage -- Joseph Addison's China -- Kant's tattooed New Zealanders -- Adding history to a footprint in Robinson Crusoe -- Indian mounds in the end-of-the-line mode -- Conclusion: ... as if Europe existed. 330 $aTony C. Brown examines "the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing" in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers-including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe-turn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage. In his intriguing exploration Brown discovers that the primitive introduces into the aesthetic and the savage an element that proves necessary yet difficult to conceive. At its most profound, Brown explains, this element engenders a loss of confidence in one?s ability to understand the human?s relation to itself and to the world. That loss of confidence?what Brown refers to as a breach in anthropological security?traces to an inability to maintain a sense of self in the face of the New World. Demonstrating the impact of the primitive on the aesthetic and the savage, he shows how the eighteenth-century writers he focuses on struggle to define the human?s place in the world. As Brown explains, these authors go back again and again to ?exotic? examples from the New World?such as Indian burial mounds and Maori tattooing practice?making them so ubiquitous that they come to underwrite, even produce, philosophy and aesthetics. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPrimitivism in literature 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aAesthetics, European$y18th century 606 $aNoble savage stereotype in literature 606 $aLiterature and anthropology 606 $aPrimitive man stereotype in literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPrimitivism in literature. 615 0$aEnlightenment. 615 0$aAesthetics, European 615 0$aNoble savage stereotype in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and anthropology. 615 0$aPrimitive man stereotype in literature. 676 $a809/.9145 700 $aBrown$b Tony C.$f1971-$01670499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811200303321 996 $aThe primitive, the aesthetic, and the savage$94032394 997 $aUNINA