Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9789042031135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 267 str.

Laurie Ruth Johnson

Opis

"Aesthetic Anxiety "analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of anxiety can be an aesthetic mode as well as a psychological state. Johnson's elucidation of that state in texts by authors from Kant to Rilke demonstrates how estrangement can produce attachment, and repositions Romanticism as an engine of modernity.