Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

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Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition. Collectively, the essays show how the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts of the time fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition. Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Series Preface Colour Plates 1 Distributed Cognition and the Humanities 2 Introduction I. Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies - An Overview II. Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies - Our Volume 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’ 11The 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