The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art

ISBN-13: 9781350091054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Andrew Spira

Spis treści

preface acknowledgements 1. The Concept of the Self 2. The Emergence of the Self: the Structure of the Medieval Church and Popular, Heretical and Visionary Dissensions from it 3. The Resurrection of theoretical Self: Imaginative Empathy with the Suffering and Death of Christ 4. The Localisation of the Self: the Origins of Perspective and the Accommodation of the Self in Pictorial Space 5. The Necessitation of the Self: the Ennoblement of the Artist and the Invention of an Archetype 6. The Abstraction of the Self: the Secularisation of Subject-Matter and the Commodification of Art 7. The Imaginary Environments of the Self: its Physical and Intellectual Frames of Mind 8. The Privatisation of the Self: Fireplaces, Beds and Mirrors 9. The Automation of the Self: the Material Culture of Time-keeping 10. The Sensibilities of the Self: Courtesy, Conversation, Letter-writing and Novel-reading 11. The Behaviour of the Self: the Codification of Sensibility in Domestic Life 12. The Portrayal of the Self: Facial Expression and the Language of Personal Emotion 13. The Enjoyment of the Self: Sexuality and the Valorisation of Meaningless Pleasure 14. The Embodiment of the Self: the Awakening to Sensation 15. The Autonomy of the Self: the Invention of Taste and Aesthetics 16. The Naturalness of the Self: the Picturesque Transformation of Nature into a Mirror of Personal Sublimity 17. The Consummation of the Self: the Sanctification of Art 18. The Seamless Garment of the Self bibliography index