Experimental Selves
Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2018
448 pages
978-1-4875-1850-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
ON
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
6,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-1850-9 (9781487518509)
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09/2018
University of Toronto Press
€102.50
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BraiderChristopher:
Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Content
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 London 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 Molière
6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves
7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's London 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 Molière
6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves
7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
