Aesthetic Anxiety

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Aesthetic Anxiety is written by Laurie Ruth Johnson and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 904203114X (ISBN 10) and 9789042031142 (ISBN 13).

Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of anxiety can be an aesthetic mode as well as a psychological state. Johnson’s elucidation of that state in texts by authors from Kant to Rilke demonstrates how estrangement can produce attachment, and repositions Romanticism as an engine of modernity.