Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: ATTENTION Introducing a New Faculty of the Soul 1
6. 1 SCIENCE Attention, the New Science, and the Disembodied Mind 39
7. 2 SUBJECT Before the Autonomous Subject: Disciplines of Attention in the German Eighteenth Century 92
8. 3 POETICS Wonder and the Poetics of Attention: Poetry as Education of Attentiveness in B. H. Brockes and J. J. Breitinger 152
9. 4 AESTHETICS Attending to the Margins: Baumgarten’s Unredeemed Foundation of Aesthetics 199
10. Epilogue: AFTERLIVES Modulations of Attention since 1800 278
11. Bibliography 301
12. Index 323