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Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition. Collectively, the essays show how the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts of the time fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition.

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Author:   Miranda Anderson (Anniversary Fellow and an Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling) ,  George Rousseau (George Rousseau is a Cultural Historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Historical Society) ,  Michael Wheeler (Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9781474442282

ISBN 10:   1474442285
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Series Preface 1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the Humanities Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak 2 Introduction I: Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies – An Overview George Rousseau Introduction II: Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies – Our Volume Miranda Anderson 3. The Delicate Flux of World and Spirit: Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Distributed Cognition Charlotte Lee 4. Wordsworth, Keats, and Cognitive Spaces of Empathy in Endymion Renee Harris 5. The Body’s Own Space: Embodied Cognition in Berkeley and Kant Jennifer Mensch 6. Is Laurence Sterne’s Protagonist Tristram Shandy Embodied, Enacted or Extended? George Rousseau 7. Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Knowledge Lisa Ann Robertson 8. Cognitive Scaffolding, Aids to Reflection John Savarese 9. The Self in the History of Distributed Cognition: A View from the History of Reading Elspeth Jajdelska 10. ‘Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind’: Distributed Cognition and Women (Novelist)’s Representation of Theatre in Eighteenth-Century England. Ros Ballaster 11. The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics Karin Kukkonen 12. Blake and the Mark of the Cognitive: Notes Towards the Appearance of the Skeptical Subject Richard Sha 13. Eighteenth-Century Antiquity: Extended, Embodied, Enacted Helen Slaney Notes on contributors Bibliography

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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).

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