{"product_id":"figures-of-possibility-niklaus-largier-9781503630437","title":"Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience, Largier foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on experimental practices of figuration in order to shape perception, emotions, and thoughts anew. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLargier illuminates how devotional practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental engagements in literature and art from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and most recently in forms of \"new materialism.\" Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts. Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural artifacts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Niklaus Largier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503630439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503630437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Niklaus Largier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945115353343,"sku":"9781503630437","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c593264b-579a-4f64-ab4c-6a543f6acf3b.jpg?v=1681506869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/figures-of-possibility-niklaus-largier-9781503630437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}