Figures of Possibility
Title | Figures of Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Niklaus Largier |
Publisher | Cultural Memory in the Present |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781503630437 |
From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to 19th century decadent literature, and to early 20th 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, Niklaus 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 17th to the 20th 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 artefacts.
Figures of Possibility
Title | Figures of Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Niklaus Largier |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1503631052 |
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.
The Water of Possibility
Title | The Water of Possibility PDF eBook |
Author | Hiromi Goto |
Publisher | Coteau Books |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781550501834 |
One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore.
What Would Be Different
Title | What Would Be Different PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Macdonald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781503610637 |
At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, this book presents and examines Adorno's unusual concept of possibility and aims to answer how we are to articulate the possibility of a redeemed life without lapsing into a vague and naïve utopianism.
What Would Be Different
Title | What Would Be Different PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Macdonald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781503610279 |
At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, this book presents and examines Adorno's unusual concept of possibility and aims to answer how we are to articulate the possibility of a redeemed life without lapsing into a vague and naïve utopianism.
Figures of Speech
Title | Figures of Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Quinn |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1880393026 |
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
United States Exports of Domestic and Foreign Merchandise
Title | United States Exports of Domestic and Foreign Merchandise PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 962 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Exports |
ISBN |