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Arts of Perception - The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720 (Hardcover)
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Arts of Perception - The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720 (Hardcover)
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Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish
history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major
writers and intellectuals, including Gracian, Quevedo, Calderon,
Saavedra Fajardo, Lopez de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these
figures in the context of European thought and the new science, and
philosophy, the study considers how they developed various 'arts of
perception' - complex perceptual strategies designed to overcome
and exploit epistemic problems to enable an individual to act
effectively in the moral, political, social or religious sphere.
The study takes as its subject the distinctive epistemological
mentality behind such 'arts of perception'. This mentality was
fostered by the creative interaction of scepticism and Stoicism,
and found expression in the key concepts ser/parecer and
engano/desengano. The work traces the emergence, development, and
impact of these concepts on Spanish thought and culture. As well as
offering new interpretations of specific major figures, Arts of
Perception offers an interpretation of the mentality of an entire
culture as it made the fraught transition to intellectual
modernity. As such it ranges over numerous discourses and formative
contexts and provides a wealth of new material which will be of use
to all those seeking to understand and interpret the literature,
culture and thought of Golden Age Spain. This book was previously
published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
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