The practices of the Enlightenment : aesthetics, authorship, and the public / Dorothea E. von Mücke...
The practices of the Enlightenment : aesthetics, authorship, and the public / Dorothea E. von Mücke...
The practices of the Enlightenment : aesthetics, authorship, and the public / Dorothea E. von Mücke.
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New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
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G 2015/3784
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English
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Physical content
xxvi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I : The birth of aesthetics, the ends of teleology, and the rise of genius. The surprising origins of enlightenment aesthetics -- Disinterested interest : the human animal's lack of instinct -- Beautiful, not intelligent design -- Enlightenment discourses on original genius -- "Where nature giv...
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering conc...
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The practices of the Enlightenment : aesthetics, authorship, and the public / Dorothea E. von Mücke.
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/3784
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74VKRa5qlvwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRa5qlvwd
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ISBN
023117246X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231172462 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
190.9033
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991023148109702626
