The Mind Is a Collection : : Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought / / Sean Silver.
John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 33 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface : Welcome To The Museum
- Introduction
- Case 1. Metaphor
- Case 2. Design
- Case 3. Digression
- Case 4. Inwardness
- Case 5. Conception
- Case 6. Dispossession
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments