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Author: Miranda Anderson ,
George Rousseau ,
Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474442282
ISBN 10: 1474442285
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 30 September 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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A relatively recent, but pronounced, paradigm shift in cognitive science sees cognition as distributed across brain, body and world. This latest offering from the series, The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition, is a groundbreaking investigation of the implications of this distributed conception of cognition for our understanding of literature in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Anderson, Rousseau and Wheeler have assembled a set of consistently excellent contributions. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of cognition and also provides a dramatically original way of reading works of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods.-- ""Mark Rowlands, University of Miami"" An innovative, thought-provoking approach to eighteenth-century culture. By applying new notions of the human mind as extended across brain, body, and environment, contributors open up refreshing perspectives on the most significant issues in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies.-- ""Avi S. Lifschitz, Magdalen College, University of Oxford""
"A relatively recent, but pronounced, paradigm shift in cognitive science sees cognition as distributed across brain, body and world. This latest offering from the series, The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition, is a groundbreaking investigation of the implications of this distributed conception of cognition for our understanding of literature in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Anderson, Rousseau and Wheeler have assembled a set of consistently excellent contributions. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of cognition and also provides a dramatically original way of reading works of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods.-- ""Mark Rowlands, University of Miami"" An innovative, thought-provoking approach to eighteenth-century culture. By applying new notions of the human mind as extended across brain, body, and environment, contributors open up refreshing perspectives on the most significant issues in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies.-- ""Avi S. Lifschitz, Magdalen College, University of Oxford"""
Author Information
Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). George Rousseau is a Cultural Historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught at Harvard for many years, was Professor at UCLA, Regius Professor at King's College Aberdeen and was Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University until 2013. His books centre chronologically in the Enlightenment and usually include medicine, science and sex as primary to their concerns. Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (MIT, 2005). He is co-editor of Heidegger and Cognitive Science (Palgrave, 2012) and The Mechanical Mind in History (MIT, 2008).
