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Poetry as a Way of Life : Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century /
What would it mean to make a work of art the focal point of one's life practice? Poetry as a Way of Life goes back to the origins of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline in the early eighteenth century in order to uncover an understanding of the work of art as an exercise of the self. Engag...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Attraction and critique
- The improbable coherence of contingent things : aesthetic exercises in the work of Alexander Baumgarten
- The persistence of the fragile world
- Resistance to harmony and the limits of order
- Poetic modalities of being
- Disequilibrium and the movement of poetry
- Stimulation and disorganization in Novalis's Hymns to the night
- Difference/indifference : Novalis's The novices of Sais
- Incited speech
- Pleasure, utility, and transcendental saturation
- The depth of the surface and anacreontic reflexivity
- Anacreontic play and the disorganization of transcendental orders
- The death of Anacreon
- Afterword. World regeneration.