Hamilton Ross
Hamilton Ross - Accident A Philosophical And Literary History - Paperback
Hamilton Ross - Accident A Philosophical And Literary History - Paperback
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Description: From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea. An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally hits Giacometti and he experiences an epiphany. Darwin introduces accident to the basic process of life and Freud looks to accident as the expression of unconscious desire. Accident Ross Hamilton claims is the force that makes us modern. Tracing the story of accident from Aristotle to Buster Keaton and beyond Hamilton's daring book revives the tradition of the grand history of ideas. Accident tells an original history of Western thought from the perspective of Aristotle's remarkably durable categories of accident and substance. Throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages Aristotle's distinction underwrote an insistence on order and subordination of the inessential. In a groundbreaking innovation Hamilton argues that after the Reformation the concept of accident began to change places with that of substance: accident became a life - transforming event and effectively a person's essence. For moderns it is the accidental seemingly trivial moments of consciousness that like Wordsworth's spots of time create constellations of meaning in our lives. Touching on a broad array of images and texts Augustine Dante the frescoes of Raphael Descartes Jane Austen the work of the surrealists and twentieth - century cinema Hamilton provides a new way to map the mutations of personal identity and subjectivity.
Title: Accident A Philosophical And Literary History
Author(s): Hamilton Ross
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226821047
Pages: 320 Pages, 6 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/27/2022
Category: Philosophy
Description: From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea. An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally hits Giacometti and he experiences an epiphany. Darwin introduces accident to the basic process of life and Freud looks to accident as the expression of unconscious desire. Accident Ross Hamilton claims is the force that makes us modern. Tracing the story of accident from Aristotle to Buster Keaton and beyond Hamilton's daring book revives the tradition of the grand history of ideas. Accident tells an original history of Western thought from the perspective of Aristotle's remarkably durable categories of accident and substance. Throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages Aristotle's distinction underwrote an insistence on order and subordination of the inessential. In a groundbreaking innovation Hamilton argues that after the Reformation the concept of accident began to change places with that of substance: accident became a life - transforming event and effectively a person's essence. For moderns it is the accidental seemingly trivial moments of consciousness that like Wordsworth's spots of time create constellations of meaning in our lives. Touching on a broad array of images and texts Augustine Dante the frescoes of Raphael Descartes Jane Austen the work of the surrealists and twentieth - century cinema Hamilton provides a new way to map the mutations of personal identity and subjectivity.
Title: Accident A Philosophical And Literary History
Author(s): Hamilton Ross
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226821047
Pages: 320 Pages, 6 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/27/2022
Category: Philosophy
