{"product_id":"figures-of-possibility-9781503631045","title":"Figures of Possibility","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\n\n\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","brand":"Niklaus Largier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291340353787,"sku":"9781503631045","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_3933f0e5-9911-4b6b-bcb5-772480d6adc7.jpg?v=1779999361","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/figures-of-possibility-9781503631045","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}