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Experimental Selves - Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Experimental Selves - Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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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. Person so conceived was discovered to be
a four-dimensional creature: a composite of mind or 'inner'
personality; of the body and outward appearance; of social
relationship; and of time. Through a series of case studies keyed
to a wide variety of social and cultural contexts, including
theatre, the early novel, the art of portraiture, pictorial
experiments in vision and perception, theory of knowledge, and the
new experimental science of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, the book examines the manifold shapes person assumed as
an expression of the social, natural, and aesthetic 'experiments'
or experiences to which it found itself subjected as a function of
the mere contingent fact of just having them.
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