UID:
almahu_9949545088702882
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:
9781503631052
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present
Content:
From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience, Largier foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on experimental practices of figuration in order to shape perception, emotions, and thoughts anew. Largier illuminates how devotional practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental engagements in literature and art from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and most recently in forms of "new materialism." Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts. Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural artifacts.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1 Disruptions --
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2 Figuration --
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3 Reweaving Perception --
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4 Imitation --
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5 Framings --
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6 Monadic Transcriptions --
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7 Modernist Moments --
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8 Holy Fools --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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In:
Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766486
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9781503631052
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503631052
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503631052
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