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Poetry and Mind is an excellent book that performs its own thesis as a `thinking experiment' that is part classical argument and part poetic suggestion. In the breathtaking range of literary and philological knowledge on display, we have a form of verification built on Wittgensteinian perspicuity-on the very brilliance of its own learning. Many scholars and artists have attempted the Tractatarian form before, but seldom with Dubreuil's success. -- John O Maoilearca * Kingston University * Dubreuil insists that without poetry the human risks degenerating into the merely computed. He does not, thankfully, do this by dismissing the power of cognitive science. Instead, he teases out of this science the principle that even on its own terms, poetry puts in play an array of cognitive challenges that the mind succumbs to morbidity without. The astonishing range and acuity of Dubreuil's poetic readings-from Europe, to Japan, to Africa, to pre-Conquest Latin America, and in drama, lyric, epic, and even popular music-show how seriously the author takes his contention that poetry, if read attentively, jostles the cerebral cortex. -- John Mowitt * University of Leeds *

Poetry and Mind is an excellent book that performs its own thesis as a `thinking experiment' that is part classical argument and part poetic suggestion. In the breathtaking range of literary and philological knowledge on display, we have a form of verification built on Wittgensteinian perspicuity-on the very brilliance of its own learning. Many scholars and artists have attempted the Tractatarian form before, but seldom with Dubreuil's success. -- John O Maoilearca * Kingston University * Dubreuil insists that without poetry the human risks degenerating into the merely computed. He does not, thankfully, do this by dismissing the power of cognitive science. Instead, he teases out of this science the principle that even on its own terms, poetry puts in play an array of cognitive challenges that the mind succumbs to morbidity without. The astonishing range and acuity of Dubreuil's poetic readings-from Europe, to Japan, to Africa, to pre-Conquest Latin America, and in drama, lyric, epic, and even popular music-show how seriously the author takes his contention that poetry, if read attentively, jostles the cerebral cortex. -- John Mowitt * University of Leeds *

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Laurent Dubreuil is a Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, and Cognitive Science at Cornell University and a Senior International Professor at the Tsinghua University Institute for World Literatures and Cultures. His most recent books are The Intellective Space: Thinking Beyond Cognition and The Refusal of Politics.

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