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The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public
Dorothea Von Mücke
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Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering concerns of authorship and audience, this book revitalizes scholarship on the Enlightenment. By engaging with three critical categories-aesthetics, authorship, and the public sphere-The Practices of Enlightenment illuminates the relationship between religious and aesthetic modes of reflective contemplation, autobiography and the hermeneutics of the self, and the discursive creation of the public sphere. Focusing largely on ... Read more
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering concerns of authorship and audience, this book revitalizes scholarship on the Enlightenment. By engaging with three critical categories-aesthetics, authorship, and the public sphere-The Practices of Enlightenment illuminates the relationship between religious and aesthetic modes of reflective contemplation, autobiography and the hermeneutics of the self, and the discursive creation of the public sphere. Focusing largely on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172462
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V9780231172462
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About Dorothea Von Mücke
Dorothea E. von Mucke is professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project and The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Her coedited books include Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century and A New History of ... Read more
Reviews for The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public
A remarkable and innovative investigation of the confluence of religious (especially pietistic) and aesthetic writings in shaping Enlightenment thought, offering a decisive intervention into intellectual history and the emergence of the aesthetic lexicon that still accompanies us today.
Paul Fleming, Cornell University This risk-taking, cliche-breaking book embodies the virtues of the writers it studies. Lessing, Rousseau, Kant, Herder, and ... Read more
Paul Fleming, Cornell University This risk-taking, cliche-breaking book embodies the virtues of the writers it studies. Lessing, Rousseau, Kant, Herder, and ... Read more