{"product_id":"creatures-of-attention-9781501775802","title":"Creatures of Attention","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreatures of Attention\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention.\u003c\/b\u003e At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works from eighteenth-century Germany in which attention, subject, and aesthetics developed their modern meanings, Johannes Wankhammer examines control over attention as the cultural technique underpinning the ideal of individual autonomy. Aesthetics, founded by Alexander Baumgarten as a science of sense perception, challenged this ideal by reframing art as a catalyst for alternative modes of selfhood and attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile previous scholarship on the history of attention emphasized the erosion of subjectivity by industrial or technological modernization, Wankhammer asks how attention came to define subjectivity in the first place. When periodically recurring crises of\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885908668759,"sku":"9781501775802","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501775802.jpg?v=1722538124","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creatures-of-attention-9781501775802","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}