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

Braider, Christopher S. (Author)

University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

ISBN: 9781487503680

Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 448

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Experience; witness Mind and body Consciousness Personhood Personality; character 17th century 18th century

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

Review Christopher Hamlin (2020) Review of "Experimental Selves: Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 671-672). unapi

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