An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and
environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the
dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of
bodies and minds  This book studies later eighteenth-century
medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge
increasingly concerned about the relationship between the
geographical movements of persons displaced from home and the
physiological or nervous “motions†within their bodies and
minds. Looking beyond familiar narratives about medicine and
art’s shared therapeutic and harmonizing ideals, this book
explores Enlightenment and Romantic-era aesthetics and poetics in
relation to a central but less well known area of
eighteenth-century environmental medicine: pathology. Â No
mere system of diagnosis or classification, philosophical pathology
was an art of interpretation, offering sophisticated ways of
reading the multiple conditions and causes of disease, however
absent from perception, in their palpable, embodied effects. For
medical, anthropological, environmental, and literary authors
alike, it helped to locate the dislocations of modern mobility when
a full view of their causes and conditions remained imperfectly
understood or still unfolding. Goodman traces the surprising
afterlife of the period’s exemplary but unexplained pathology of
motion, medical nostalgia, within aesthetic theory and poetics,
arguing that nostalgia persisted there not as a named condition but
as a set of formal principles and practices, perturbing claims
about the harmony, freedom, and free play of the mind.
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