Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.
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History of ArtTable of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment
- Chapter One. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression
- Chapter Two. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstratenâs Peepshow
- Chapter Three. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardtâs Individual
- Chapter Four. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonsonâs Bartholomew Fayre
- Chapter Five. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière
- Chapter Six. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayetteâs Princesse de Clèves
- Chapter Seven. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant
- Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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