The Age of Curiosity : : The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature / / Simone Broders.
Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dyna...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 316 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Scribal Abbreviations
- Tables and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Networking the Age of Curiosity: Unmasking the Myth
- 1 Original Sin or Secret of Happiness? An Introduction to Curiosity
- 2 “The Thinking Animal”: Lovejoy’s History of Ideas
- 3 Methodology of the Study
- 4 Curiosity: Origins of the Debate
- 5 Curiosity Across Different Media
- 6 Agents of Curiosity and the ‘New Science’
- 7 Secret Chambers, Hidden Chests, and the Mysterious Self: Objects of Curiosity in Romanticism
- 8 Conclusion: Legitimacy of Curiosity in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
- Works Cited
- Dictionaries, Thesauri
- Index