Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Andriopoulos, Stefan
Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Andriopoulos, Stefan

Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

Drawing together literature, media, and philosophy, Ghostly Apparitions provides a new model for media archaeology and its...
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Author: Stefan Andriopoulos
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Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Andriopoulos, Stefan

Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

$67.83
Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Andriopoulos, Stefan

Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

$67.83
Author: Stefan Andriopoulos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Drawing together literature, media, and philosophy, Ghostly Apparitions provides a new model for media archaeology and its transformation of intellectual and literary history. Stefan Andriopoulos examines new media technologies and distinct cultural realms, tracing connections between Kant's philosophy and the magic lantern's phantasmagoria, the Gothic novel and print culture, and spiritualist research and the invention of television.

As Kant was writing about the possibility of spiritual apparitions, the emerging medium of the phantasmagoria used hidden magic lanterns to startle audiences with ghostly projections. Andriopoulos juxtaposes the philosophical arguments of German idealism with contemporaneous occultism and ghost shows. In close readings of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, he traces the diverging modes in which these authors appropriated figures of optical media and spiritualist notions.

The spectral apparitions from this period also intersect with the rise of popular print culture. Andriopoulos explores the circulation of ostensibly authentic ghost narratives and the Gothic novel, which was said to produce "reading addiction" and a loss of reality. Romantic representations of animal magnetism and clairvoyance similarly blurred the boundary between fiction and reality.

The final chapter of Ghostly Apparitions extends this archaeology of new media into the early twentieth century. Tracing a reciprocal inter_action between occultism and engineering, Andriopoulos uncovers how theories and devices of psychical research enabled the emergence of television.

Author: Stefan Andriopoulos
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 06/09/2013
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781935408352
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Stefan Andriopoulos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He is the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema.


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