Johannes Wankhammer

Creatures of Attention

Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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 Renâe Descartes, G.W.F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten."--

Produktdetails

• Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781501775802
• ISBN-10: 1501775804
• Artikelnr.: 70050892

Autorenporträt

Johannes Wankhammer is Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

ATTENTION: Introducing a New Faculty of the Soul
1. SCIENCE: Attention, the New Science, and the Disembodied Mind
2. SUBJECT: Before the Autonomous Subject: Disciplines of Attention in the
German Eighteenth Centur
3. POETICS: Wonder and the Poetics of Attention: Poetry as Education of
Attentiveness in B. H. Brockes and J. J. Breitinger
4. AESTHETICS: Attending to the Margins: Baumgarten's Unredeemed Foundation
of Aesthetics
AFTERLIVES: Modulations of Attention since 1800