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Overview"Tony C. Brown examines ""the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing"" in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers-including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe-turn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tony C. BrownPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9780816675630ISBN 10: 0816675635 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 December 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction: An Enlightenment Problematic I. Primitive, Aesthetic, Savage 1. The Primitive 2. The Aesthetic 3. The Savage II. Delimiting the Aesthetic 4. Joseph Addison’s China 5. Kant’s Tattooed New Zealanders III. Aesthetic Formations of History 6. Adding History to a Footprint in Robinson Crusoe 7. Indian Mounds in the End-of-the-Line Mode Conclusion: …as if Europe Existed Notes IndexReviewsMounting a strong critique of historicism in recent literary studies for implying causal relations, Tony Brown attends instead to the conditions of possibility of history. In The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage , Brown reevaluates the importance of the notion of the primitive in funding an ur-history that can only be conjectural. He points to the interest in the origins of language in making it possible to think in terms of the human capacity to develop and become historical. This is compelling work that suggests the important interconnections among aesthetics and anthropological thought. --Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University Mounting a strong critique of historicism in recent literary studies for implying causal relations, Tony Brown attends instead to the conditions of possibility of history. In The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage , Brown reevaluates the importance of the notion of the primitive in funding an ur-history that can only be conjectural. He points to the interest in the origins of language in making it possible to think in terms of the human capacity to develop and become historical. This is compelling work that suggests the important interconnections among aesthetics and anthropological thought. --Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University<br> Author InformationTony C. Brown is associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he teaches eighteenth-century literature and literary theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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