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

Spira, Andrew

The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art - London Bloomsbury Academic 2020 - 412p

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 the self: Imaginative empathy with the suffering and death of Christ
4. The localization 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 secularization of subject-matter and the commodification of art
7. The imaginary environments of the self: Its physical and intellectual frames of mind
8. The privatization 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

9781350091054

N36.4 / SP481

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