Book ID: CBB192974374

Experimental Selves: Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe (2018)

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Braider, Christopher S. (Author)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 448
Language: English

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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Review Charles T. Wolfe (2020) Review of "Experimental Selves: Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 469-472). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
Horst Steinke
Febvre, Lucien
Maselli, Mila
Masha Raskolnikov
Anna Kłosowska
Concepts
Mind and body
Experience; witness
Consciousness
Psychology
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
16th century
Medieval
Places
Italy
England
Sicily
Spain
France
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