LEADER 03265nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910827183603321 005 20240417032408.0 010 $a1-4384-3231-3 010 $a1-4416-8696-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000090141 035 $a(OCoLC)710993092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10573992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510344 035 $a(PQKB)11351235 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407131 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1704 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407131 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10573992 035 $a(DE-B1597)682043 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438432311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000090141 100 $a20100112d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFigures of simplicity$b[electronic resource] $esensation and thinking in Kleist and Melville /$fBirgit Mara Kaiser 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series, intersections: philosophy and critical theory 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-3229-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: on subterranean connections -- Aesthetics: sensation and thinking reconsidered -- Sentimentalities -- Affectivity -- Insistence. 330 $aFigures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature?Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten?in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of "simpletons" that populate the writings of Kleist and Melville. These figures are not entirely ignorant, or stupid, but simple. Their simplicity is a way of thinking; one that author Birgit Mara Kaiser here suggests is affective thinking. Kaiser avers that Kleist and Melville are experimenting in their texts with an affective mode of thinking, and thereby continue, she argues, a key line within eighteenth-century aesthetics: the relation of rationality and sensibility. Through her analyses, she offers an outline of what thinking can look like if we take affectivity into account. 410 0$aIntersections (Albany, N.Y.) 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and German 606 $aComparative literature$xGerman and American 606 $aSenses and sensation in literature 606 $aThought and thinking in literature 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and German. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGerman and American. 615 0$aSenses and sensation in literature. 615 0$aThought and thinking in literature. 676 $a813/.3 700 $aKaiser$b Birgit Mara$01685014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827183603321 996 $aFigures of simplicity$94056825 997 $aUNINA