Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before Kant by Wankhammer, Johannes

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before Kant

Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the...
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Author: Johannes Wankhammer
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Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before Kant by Wankhammer, Johannes

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before Kant

Dhs. 308.30

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before Kant

Dhs. 308.30
Author: Johannes Wankhammer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works from eighteenth-century Germany in which "attention," "subject," and "aesthetics" developed their modern meanings, Johannes Wankhammer examines control over attention as the cultural technique underpinning the ideal of individual autonomy. Aesthetics, founded by Alexander Baumgarten as a science of sense perception, challenged this ideal by reframing art as a catalyst for alternative modes of selfhood and attention.

While previous scholarship on the history of attention emphasized the erosion of subjectivity by industrial or technological modernization, Wankhammer asks how attention came to define subjectivity in the first place. When periodically recurring crises of attention threaten the coherence of the subject, the subject comes undone at the very seams that first sutured it together.

Creatures of Attention offers the first systematic study of a foundational discourse on attention from 1650 to 1780. Presenting pre-Kantian aesthetics as a critique of the Enlightenment paradigm of strained attention, the book offers a fresh perspective on poetics and aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany.



Author: Johannes Wankhammer
Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
Published: 06/15/2024
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781501775802

About the Author

Johannes Wankhammer is Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University.


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