Christopher Braider: 3 books
The Matter of Mind
Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to...
Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth
Hercules at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static...
Experimental Selves
Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that ‘person,’ as early moderns understood this concept, was an ‘experimental’ phenomenon—at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. Person so conceived...