Braider Experimental Selves

Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4875-1850-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braider, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

BraiderChristopher:
Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.