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The Age of Curiosity - The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Inglese, Tedesco · Copertina rigida

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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 dynamic alternative to the 'development' of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them.
The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres.
The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy's history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of 'identity' or 'truth', and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.

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Autori Simone Broders
Editore De Gruyter
 
Lingue Inglese, Tedesco
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 01.01.2021
 
EAN 9783110721911
ISBN 978-3-11-072191-1
Pagine 316
Dimensioni 163 mm x 21 mm x 236 mm
Peso 592 g
Illustrazioni 24 b/w ill., 3 b/w tbl.
Serie Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
Categoria Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese

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