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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812233087
  • 9781512803334
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190/.9/033 20
LOC classification:
  • B802 .I36 1995eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512803334

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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