RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gynaecology, Natural Philosophy, Industrial Revolution
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Encourages people to chronicle their own events and others". Unconsciuos in romanticism unconscious in the 19th century europe (1) christian wolff: Irrational model of science a: deductive method, time did not play a role (2) empirical psychology, emerging field, human being as both mind and body, against the cartesian split b. Invention of the bourgeois subject as prerequisite to psychoanalysis. Bourgeois subject: (1) interested in oneself, (2) new form of introspection (before it was not common to observe oneself) Science used to be call natural history/ natural philosophy (in the 19th century) People related to the past b examples that could teach them about the future. Secularization: people start to doubt life after death. People begin to develop interest in landscapes: also called soulscapes , ex. Introduction of geological time: layers of tiem that build up and inform nature relate to understanding of humans. Reaction to (1) realization and (2) industrial revolution.
