Invention of the Self

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


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