Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture / / Michael Wheeler, Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Miranda,; Rousseau, George,; Wheeler, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Miranda,; Ballaster, Ros,; Harris, Renee,; Jajdelska, Elspeth,; Kukkonen, Karin,; Lee, Charlotte,; Mensch, Jennifer,; Robertson, Lisa Ann,; Rousseau, George,; Savarese, John,; Sha, Richard C.,; Slaney, Helen,; Sprevak, Mark,; Wheeler, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition : EHDC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 5 colour illustrations 3 B/W tables

11 essays by international specialists open up the research field of distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities in the Enlightenment and Romantic periodsThe third book in an ambitious four-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thoughtBrings together essays on literature, history, philosophy, art, archaeology, medicine, science and material cultureIncludes a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanitiesFor students and scholars in Enlightenment and Romantic studies, cognitive humanities and philosophy of mind Draws out what was distinctive about Enlightenment and Romantic insights into the cognitive roles of the body and environmentExamines how humanities topics are affected by new insights from the cognitive sciencesThis collection explores how Enlightenment and Romantic practices and ideas reveal the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the long 18th century.ContributorsMiranda Anderson, University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling, UK. Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK. Renee Harris, Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, USA.Elspeth Jajdelska, University of Strathclyde, UK.Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo, Norway. Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge, UK.Jennifer Mensch, Western Sydney University, Australia.Lisa Ann Robertson, University of South Dakota, USA.George Rousseau, University of Oxford, UK. John Savarese, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Richard C. Sha, American University, Washington DC, USA.Helen Slaney, University of Roehampton, UK. Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, UK.Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling, UK.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- 1 Distributed Cognition and the Humanities -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Distributed Cognition: The Delicate Flux of World and Spirit -- 4 Wordsworth, Keats and Cognitive Spaces of Empathy in Endymion -- 5 Embodied Cognition in Berkeley and Kant: The Body’s Own Space -- 6 Is Laurence Sterne’s Protagonist Tristram Shandy Embodied, Enacted or Extended? -- 7 Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Knowledge -- 8 Cognitive Scaffolding, Aids to Reflection -- 9 The Self in the History of Distributed Cognition: A View from the History of Reading -- 10 Distributed Cognition and Women Writers’ Representation of Theatre in Eighteenth-Century England: ‘Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind’ -- 11 The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics -- 12 Blake and the Mark of the Cognitive: Notes Towards the Appearance of the Sceptical Subject -- 13 Eighteenth-Century Antiquity: Extended, Embodied, Enacted -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index