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Paper minds : literature and the ecology of consciousness / Jonathan Kramnick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramnick, Jonathan Brody, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Consciousness.
- Physical Description:
- x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Ranging from eighteenth-century poetry and haptic theories of vision, to fiction and contemporary problems of consciousness, to landscapes in which all matter is sentient, to cognitive science and the rise of the novel, Paper minds shows us the distinctive knowledge that literary texts and criticism can offer about topics that matter.
- Contents:
- Paper minds, an introduction
- Part I. On method and the disciplines
- Are we being interdisciplinary yet?
- Form and explanation (with Anahid Nersessian)
- Part II. Poetry and the perception of the environment
- Presence of mind
- On beauty and being at home
- Part III. Fictions of mind
- Empiricism, cognitive science, and the novel
- Around 2005; or, two novels and the problem of consciousness
- Two kinds of panpsychism: Margaret Cavendish and Marilynne Robinson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226573014
- 022657301X
- 9780226573151
- 022657315X
- OCLC:
- 1019841793
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