Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

• Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-01
• Mått: 172 x 244 x 22 mm
• Vikt: 650 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition
• Antal sidor: 296
• Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9781474442282

• Litteraturvetenskap
• Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
• Filosofiska discipliner

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).

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.

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