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This project explores the historical concept of distraction in philosophical and literary contexts, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries. It aims to redefine distraction as a productive resource, examining its implications on truth, objectivity, and the relationship between literature and philosophy.
The proposed research challenges and reassesses the historical development of ‘distraction’ in its philosophical and literary implications.
The dominant Augustinian-Pascalian strain of Western thought has traditionally viewed distraction as an expression of human imperfection, which has therefore to be corrected in favour of concentration and logical thinking.
My project reconstructs how the 17th and 18th cs. witness a different understanding of distraction in both the ethical and the aesthetic-…
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