Ghostly Apparitions (eBook)

German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

Stefan Andriopoulos (Autor)

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2013
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-935408-61-1 (ISBN)

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Drawing together literature, media, and philosophy, Ghostly Apparitions provides a new model for media archaeology and its transformation of intellectual and literary history. Stefan Andriopoulos examines new media technologies and distinct cultural realms, tracing connections between Kant's philosophy and the magic lantern's phantasmagoria, the Gothic novel and print culture, and spiritualist research and the invention of television.As Kant was writing about the possibility of spiritual apparitions, the emerging medium of the phantasmagoria used hidden magic lanterns to startle audiences with ghostly projections. Andriopoulos juxtaposes the philosophical arguments of German idealism with contemporaneous occultism and ghost shows. In close readings of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, he traces the diverging modes in which these authors appropriated figures of optical media and spiritualist notions.The spectral apparitions from this period also intersect with the rise of popular print culture. Andriopoulos explores the circulation of ostensibly authentic ghost narratives and the Gothic novel, which was said to produce "e;reading addiction"e; and a loss of reality. Romantic representations of animal magnetism and clairvoyance similarly blurred the boundary between fiction and reality.The final chapter of Ghostly Apparitions extends this archaeology of new media into the early twentieth century. Tracing a reciprocal inter_action between occultism and engineering, Andriopoulos uncovers how theories and devices of psychical research enabled the emergence of television.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Absolute (philosophy) • agnosticism • Albert von Schrenck-Notzing • Alchemy • Analogy • animal magnetism • Antinomy • Archetype • Arthur Schopenhauer • Banquo • Brentano • Cajetan • Cesare Lombroso • Clairvoyance • Cognition • Concept • Consciousness • Continental Philosophy • critical philosophy • critique • Critique of Judgment • Critique of Pure Reason • Dialectic • Disenchantment • Edmund Husserl • Emanuel Swedenborg • Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences • Epistemology • E. T. A. Hoffmann • Explanation • Fairy tale • Fiction • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi • Friedrich Nicolai • Friedrich Schiller • German Idealism • Gothic fiction • Horace Walpole • Horrid Mysteries • hypothesis • idealism • Immanuel Kant • Jacques Derrida • Jonathan Crary • kantian ethics • KANTIANISM • Karl von Eckartshausen • Lecture • Lee De Forest • Leyden jar • Literature • Ludwig Tieck • Materialism • narrative • Natural magic • necromancy • Nostradamus • Occult • occult science • Oliver Lodge • Parapsychology • Parerga and Paralipomena • phenomenon • Philosophical investigations • Philosophy • Positivism • Print Culture • Psychoanalysis • Reality • Realphilosophie • reason • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Science of Logic • Sentimental Novel • Speculative reason • Speech and Phenomena • SPIRIT • Superiority (short story) • Suspension of Disbelief • Technology • telepathy • The Devil's Elixirs • the facts in the case of m. valdemar • The Golden Pot • Theobald • Theoretical Philosophy • theory • Theosophy • The Phenomenology of Spirit • The Various • The World as Will and Representation • Thought • Thought experiment • transcendental arguments • Transcendental idealism • treatise • Universality (philosophy) • Verisimilitude • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-935408-61-5 / 1935408615
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935408-61-1 / 9781935408611