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The primitive, the aesthetic, and the savage : an Enlightenment problematic /

Tony C. Brown examines "the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing" in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers-including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe-turn to exotic figures in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Tony C., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: An enlightenment problematic
  • The primitive
  • The aesthetic
  • The savage
  • Joseph Addison's China
  • Kant's tattooed New Zealanders
  • Adding history to a footprint in Robinson Crusoe
  • Indian mounds in the end-of-the-line mode
  • Conclusion: ... as if Europe existed.