Experimental Selves : Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe / / Christopher Braider
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| Autore: |
Braider Christopher
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| Titolo: |
Experimental Selves : Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe / / Christopher Braider
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (442 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.93384 |
| Soggetto topico: | Self in literature |
| Self-perception in art | |
| Self-knowledge, Theory of - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe |
| Europe Vie intellectuelle | |
| Europe Intellectual life | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | aesthetics |
| agency | |
| art | |
| experience | |
| experiment | |
| nature | |
| person | |
| sovereignty | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Experimental Selves |
| ISBN: | 1-4875-1851-X |
| 1-4875-1850-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793130603321 |
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