Creatures of attention : aesthetics and the subject before Kant /
"The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus on German philosophy and literature. It argues that this discourse influenced the formation of aesthetic philosophy in the eighteenth century. Notable figures discussed include René De...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2024.
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| Col·lecció: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.6195041 |
Taula de continguts:
- Attention. Introducing a new faculty of the soul
- Science. Attention, the new science, and the disembodied mind
- Subject. Before the autonomous subject: disciplines of attention in the German eighteenth century
- Poetics. Wonder and the poetics of attention: poetry as education of attentiveness in B. H. Brockes and J. J. Breitinger
- Aesthetics. Attending to the margins: Baumgarten's unredeemed foundation of aesthetics
- Afterlives. Modulations of attention since 1800.