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- 题名/责任者:
- The age of curiosity : the neural network of an idea in eighteenth-century English literature / Simone Broders.
- 出版发行项:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
- 出版发行项:
- ?2021
- ISBN:
- 9783110721911
- ISBN:
- 3110721910
- 载体形态项:
- xii, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- 丛编说明:
- Buchreihe der Anglia = ANGLIA book series, 0340-5435 ; volume 72
- 丛编统一题名:
- Buchreihe der Anglia ; 72. Bd.
- 个人责任者:
- Broders, Simone, author.
- 论题主题:
- Idea (Philosophy)
- 论题主题:
- Curiosity.
- 论题主题:
- English literature-18th century-History and criticism.
- 论题主题:
- Curiosity in literature.
- 论题主题:
- Idea (Philosophy)
- 论题主题:
- Curiosity in literature.
- 论题主题:
- Curiosity.
- 论题主题:
- English literature.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.094
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- 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.
- 摘要附注:
- 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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