The Age of Minerva, Volume 2 : : Cognitive Discontinuities in Eighteenth-Century Thought--From Body to Mind in Physiology and the Arts / / Paul Ilie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ilie, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction: Methodological Orientation: Polyps, Paradigms, and Poets --; Chapter One. The Discontinuity Beneath Continuity --; Chapter Two. Metamorphosis of the Bat --; Chapter Three. The Idea of Chaos --; Chapter Four. The Cerebral Labyrinth --; Chapter Five. The Discontinuous Spiderweb --; Chapter Six. Theories of Vital Force, Matter, and Fiber --; Chapter Seven. The Limitations of Brain Anatomy --; Chapter Eight. The Polyp's Mind --; Chapter Nine. The Epistemology of Aether --; Transition. The Undermined Primacy of Visual Perception --; Bibliography --; Name Index --; Subject Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803334; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803334
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Ilie.

The second volume of a trilogy about aberrant reason and the cognitive fault lines that expose the discontinuities underlying empirical reality, fault lines that are embedded in the discourses of literature, art, social analysis, biology, and philosophy.