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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Tác giả chính: Wankhammer, Johannes, 1982- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2024.
Loạt:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.6195041
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  • 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.