Niklaus Largier
Biographic Data
| ID | 986121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niklaus Largier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niklaus |
| FAMILY NAME | Largier |
| SIGNATURE | LARGIER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Generous Reading, Gracious Reading: A Reply to Robert Davis, Emma De Lisle, C. Libby, and Valentina Napolitano
The Figural Shape of Perception
The Media of Sensation
The Media of Sensation
This chapter discusses the significance of medieval practices of prayer both for the modern rediscovery of media and for the anthropology of sensation. It demonstrates how medieval theories of reading, prayer, and contemplation thematize ways in which specific media—words, images, and music—are to be used in order to produce sensual and affective cognition. In doing so, these theories develop a sophisticated understanding of media on one side, an…
Objekte der Berührung: Der Tastsinn und die Erfindung der Ästhetischen Erfahrung
Figurationen der Moderne: Mode, Pornographie und Sport
Der Band thematisiert den Zusammenhang von Kultur und Geschlecht in der literarischen Moderne. Mit der auf den ersten Blick vielleicht überraschenden Zusammenstellung von Mode, Sport und Pornographie werden drei gesellschaftliche Bereiche in den Mittelpunkt gerückt, deren Praktiken und Diskurse durch den gesellschaftlichen Modernisierungsprozess seit dem Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts hervorgebracht und verändert werden. Sie tragen aber auch selbst…
Das Theater der Askese: Gewalt, Affekt und Imagination
Der Code der Leidenschaften: Fetischismus in den Künsten
Der Fetischismus ist ein Schlüsselphänomen der modernen Gesellschaften. Er bestimmt nicht nur religiöse und mentale Formationen, sondern auch die libidinösen Objektbeziehungen in der Konsum- und Massenkultur. Bemerkenswert unterbelichtet sind die Spielarten fetischistischer Formen und Praktiken in den Künsten, Medien und Literaturen. Diese Lücke schließt 'Der Code der Leidenschaften'. Das Phänomen des Fetischismus ist gewiss älter als sein Diskur…
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience Niklaus Largier (bio) In this essay I want to address a question I have had for some time: Why is it that Alexander Gottfried Baumgarten, the founder and inventor of the modern philosophical discipline of aesthetics in the mid-eighteenth century, makes reference to the "ground of the soul," the "fundus animae," calling our attention to a basic concept that, as he point…
Mysticism, Modernity, and the Invention of Aesthetic Experience
In this article I argue that Luther's critique of the radical reformers establishes a specific distinction between the spiritual and the secular. It excludes the use of inspired speech and mystical tropes from legitimate readings of the Bible and from the political sphere. In doing so, Luther's intervention not only neutralizes certain mystical traditions but also prepares the grounds for the use of mystical tropes in a new epistemological space,…
Praying by Numbers: An Essay on Medieval Aesthetics
In this essay I argue that the imitation of examples of sainthood in the practice of prayer is the formal basis of a medieval aesthetics that focuses on the animation and the phenomenology of sensation and emotion. Quoting from this tradition and drawing on the mechanical character of such techniques of animation, nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and filmmakers-Flaubert, Huysmans, and Buñuel-explore the aesthetic possibilities of these re…
The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse Philosophe
Research Article| December 01 2003 The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse Philosophe Niklaus Largier Niklaus Largier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Niklaus Largier; The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse …
Selected Spiritual Writings . Nicholas of Cusa , H. Lawrence Bond
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Barbara Newman
Mysticism, Modernity, and the Invention of Aesthetic Experience
In this article I argue that Luther's critique of the radical reformers establishes a specific distinction between the spiritual and the secular. It excludes the use of inspired speech and mystical tropes from legitimate readings of the Bible and from the political sphere. In doing so, Luther's intervention not only neutralizes certain mystical traditions but also prepares the grounds for the use of mystical tropes in a new epistemological space,…
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience Niklaus Largier (bio) In this essay I want to address a question I have had for some time: Why is it that Alexander Gottfried Baumgarten, the founder and inventor of the modern philosophical discipline of aesthetics in the mid-eighteenth century, makes reference to the "ground of the soul," the "fundus animae," calling our attention to a basic concept that, as he point…
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Barbara Newman
Selected Spiritual Writings . Nicholas of Cusa , H. Lawrence Bond
The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse Philosophe
Research Article| December 01 2003 The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse Philosophe Niklaus Largier Niklaus Largier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Niklaus Largier; The Logic of Arousal: Saint Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse …
Praying by Numbers: An Essay on Medieval Aesthetics
In this essay I argue that the imitation of examples of sainthood in the practice of prayer is the formal basis of a medieval aesthetics that focuses on the animation and the phenomenology of sensation and emotion. Quoting from this tradition and drawing on the mechanical character of such techniques of animation, nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and filmmakers-Flaubert, Huysmans, and Buñuel-explore the aesthetic possibilities of these re…
Mysticism, Modernity, and the Invention of Aesthetic Experience
In this article I argue that Luther's critique of the radical reformers establishes a specific distinction between the spiritual and the secular. It excludes the use of inspired speech and mystical tropes from legitimate readings of the Bible and from the political sphere. In doing so, Luther's intervention not only neutralizes certain mystical traditions but also prepares the grounds for the use of mystical tropes in a new epistemological space,…
Das Theater der Askese: Gewalt, Affekt und Imagination
Der Code der Leidenschaften: Fetischismus in den Künsten
Der Fetischismus ist ein Schlüsselphänomen der modernen Gesellschaften. Er bestimmt nicht nur religiöse und mentale Formationen, sondern auch die libidinösen Objektbeziehungen in der Konsum- und Massenkultur. Bemerkenswert unterbelichtet sind die Spielarten fetischistischer Formen und Praktiken in den Künsten, Medien und Literaturen. Diese Lücke schließt 'Der Code der Leidenschaften'. Das Phänomen des Fetischismus ist gewiss älter als sein Diskur…
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience
The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience Niklaus Largier (bio) In this essay I want to address a question I have had for some time: Why is it that Alexander Gottfried Baumgarten, the founder and inventor of the modern philosophical discipline of aesthetics in the mid-eighteenth century, makes reference to the "ground of the soul," the "fundus animae," calling our attention to a basic concept that, as he point…
Figurationen der Moderne: Mode, Pornographie und Sport
Der Band thematisiert den Zusammenhang von Kultur und Geschlecht in der literarischen Moderne. Mit der auf den ersten Blick vielleicht überraschenden Zusammenstellung von Mode, Sport und Pornographie werden drei gesellschaftliche Bereiche in den Mittelpunkt gerückt, deren Praktiken und Diskurse durch den gesellschaftlichen Modernisierungsprozess seit dem Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts hervorgebracht und verändert werden. Sie tragen aber auch selbst…
Objekte der Berührung: Der Tastsinn und die Erfindung der Ästhetischen Erfahrung
The Media of Sensation
This chapter discusses the significance of medieval practices of prayer both for the modern rediscovery of media and for the anthropology of sensation. It demonstrates how medieval theories of reading, prayer, and contemplation thematize ways in which specific media—words, images, and music—are to be used in order to produce sensual and affective cognition. In doing so, these theories develop a sophisticated understanding of media on one side, an…
The Figural Shape of Perception
The Media of Sensation
Generous Reading, Gracious Reading: A Reply to Robert Davis, Emma De Lisle, C. Libby, and Valentina Napolitano
Art (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)