{"product_id":"experimental-selves-9781487503680","title":"Experimental Selves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an experimental phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Braider’s command of literature, history of ideas, and his ability to make philosophers, scientists, and writers think together is definitely impressive and insightful.\" -- Christophe Schuwey, Yale University * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Experimental Selves joins a growing number of studies of early modern personhood... Braider explores the idea that, as he puts it, 'person itself is experiment' at length in relation to early modern theatre.\" -- Charles T. Wolfe, Cá’Foscari University * \u003cem\u003ePublishing Research Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.  Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment   1.  The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression 2.  The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten’s London Peepshow 3.  Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt’s Individual 4.  Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fayre 5.  Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière  6.  The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves 7.  Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant   Conclusion.  Person, Experiment, and the World They Made","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409140654423,"sku":"9781487503680","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487503680.jpg?v=1730505588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/experimental-selves-9781487503680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}