Aesthetic anxiety

Autor*innen

• Laurie Johnson

Parameter

• Philosophie

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Einband: Paperback