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Evolving Hamlet[electronic resource]...
Fletcher, Angus, (1976-)

 

  • Evolving Hamlet[electronic resource] :seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 822/.05120936
    書名/作者: Evolving Hamlet : seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection // Angus Fletcher.
    作者: Fletcher, Angus,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (191 p.)
    標題: English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism.
    標題: English drama - History and criticism. - 17th century
    標題: Philosophy of mind in literature.
    標題: Natural selection - Philosophy.
    標題: Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy.
    標題: Philosophy of mind.
    標題: Science and literature.
    標題: DRAMA - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    ISBN: 9780230118386 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230118380 (electronic bk.)
    摘要、提要註: "Recent work in cognitive science has rooted our moral dispositions in the more ancient and less plastic regions of our brains, seeming to confirm Darwin's suspicion that a biological approach to human life must necessarily produce a narrowly conservative (and perhaps even immutable) account of ethics. This book, however, explores a now-forgotten suggestion made by William James and other early pioneers of cognitive science who saw art as a means to translate the experimental study of the mind into a skeptical, pluralist, and progressive approach to the good life. Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks that not only make us more resilient to the pressures of natural selection, but fulfill the human need for intentional life. Seen this way, art is not--as many recent cognitive scientists have suggested--simply a mirror of our natural mental functions. Rather, it is also an active contributor to new functions, a useful tool for translating the theoretical discoveries of science into progressive ethical practice"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118386
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