Experimental Selves : Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe / Christopher Braider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braider, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self in literature.

Self-perception in art.

Self-knowledge, Theory of--History.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781487518516

148751851X

9781487518509

1487518501

OCLC:

1110709937