From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic
imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to
nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth
century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows
that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries,
generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical
potential. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience,
Largier foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on
experimental practices of figuration in order to shape perception,
emotions, and thoughts anew. Largier illuminates how devotional
practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this
investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental
engagements in literature and art from the seventeenth to the
twentieth century, and most recently in forms of "new materialism."
Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that
mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the
modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts.
Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary
protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority
given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural
artifacts.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
Release date: |
March 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Niklaus Largier
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3104-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5036-3104-4 |
Barcode: |
9781503631045 |
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