Lyric Personhood – On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West

Autor Wang Dan

Lyric Personhood – On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West

Autor Wang Dan

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A new theory of personhood makes the case that a “person” has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one.   What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words like “person” or “love” seem… Přejít na celý popis

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A new theory of personhood makes the case that a “person” has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one.   What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words like “person” or “love” seem to carry an internal meaning, where does this meaningfulness come from? Lyric Personhood contends that to be encultured in the modern West is to learn, on top of everything else, an unspoken and mostly felt sense of what it means to be someone, a sense transmitted not only in language but also through encounters with aesthetic form. Through close readings that span nineteenth-century European opera, commercial cinema, and amateur YouTube proposal videos, Dan Wang shows that a “person” has become an aesthetic concept—and not just a legal, moral, political, or philosophical one—in the last two hundred years of Western culture. It’s hard to let go of the organizing promise of romantic love, the dream of therapeutic “health,” and the aspiration to belong to national culture, Wang argues, because these longings have been shaped by an archive of sentimental and melodramatic works that trains people's expectations for life, genre, and even the knowing promised in theory itself. Tracing a surprisingly continuous imagination of personhood through opera and film aesthetics, Lyric Personhood introduces modes of reading audiovisual works that allow a longer story to be told about the forms that make personhood sensible in the West.

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University of Chicago Press
Rozměr
229 x 153 x 18
jazyk
angličtina
Vazba
měkká vazba
Hmotnost
338 g
isbn
978-0-226-84357-5
Počet stran
240
datum vydání
19.11.2025
ean
9780226843575

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