Overview

The essays in this book are gathered together from the realms of art, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy and science. Together they weave a picture that gives us new insights into the mirror as a material object and as an image in art and texts. This interdisciplinary and innovative book raises important issues about the material life of an object and its intimate interrelations with socio-cultural imagery. Perceptions of the workings of our cognitive processes and of our subjectivity are shown to be dynamically interwoven with the technological and socio-cultural matrices of particular periods, whilst longer term continuities in the understanding and employment of the mirror reflect underlying continuities in the capacities and constraints of mirrors and of human subjects. This book demonstrates the active role imagery and technologies have always played in our thoughts, lives and worlds.

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Author:   Miranda Anderson
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781847181930

ISBN 10:   1847181937
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   19 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The Book of the Mirror contains a sterling and thought-provoking set of papers. They are all well written and are in an accessible style. -Professor Charles D. Laughlin, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 5:1, 2012

The Book of the Mirror contains a sterling and thought-provoking set of papers. They are all well written and are in an accessible style. -Professor Charles D. Laughlin, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 5:1, 2012

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Miranda Anderson is a literary scholar and a JSPS Fellow at the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University.

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