Experimental Selves : : Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe / / Christopher Braider.
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that 'person,' as early moderns understood this concept, was an 'experimental' phenomenon-at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. Perso...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment
- Chapter One. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression
- Chapter Two. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's Peepshow
- Chapter Three. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt's Individual
- Chapter Four. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre
- Chapter Five. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière
- Chapter Six. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves
- Chapter Seven. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant
- Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index