The mind is a collection : case studies in eighteenth-century thought / Sean Silver.

Author
Silver, Sean, 1972- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2015.
Description
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Summary note
The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface : Welcome To The Museum
  • Introduction
  • Case 1. Metaphor
  • Case 2. Design
  • Case 3. Digression
  • Case 4. Inwardness
  • Case 5. Conception
  • Case 6. Dispossession
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.
ISBN
  • 0812291565 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780812291568 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2015013299
OCLC
927160073
Doi
  • 10.9783/9780812291568
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