Christopher Braider

Experimental Selves

Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503680
• ISBN-10: 1487503687
• Artikelnr.: 52423975

Autorenporträt

By Christopher Braider

Inhaltsangabe

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