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Creatures of Attention : Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant
Title
Creatures of Attention : Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant / Johannes Wankhammer.
ISBN
9781501775819
9781501775802
9781501775826
9781501775796
Publication
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (348 pages).
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"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 Rene Descartes, G.W.F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Print version: Wankhammer, Johannes, 1982- Creatures of attention Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2024
Series
Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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