Esthetics of the Moment - Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment

Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.

About the author

Thomas M. Kavanagh is Professor of French at Yale University. Among his previous books is Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Summary

Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas M Kavanagh, Thomas M. Kavanagh
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.1996
• EAN: 9780812233797
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3379-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Critical Authors and Issues; Critical Authors and Issues
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies