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OverviewJohn Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work of reason and imagination, they modeled their powers of intellect in terms of collecting, cataloging, and classification. The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind from a material point of view. Each of the book's six chapters is organized as a series of linked exhibits that speak to a single aspect of Enlightenment philosophies of mind. From his first chapter, on metaphor, to the last one, on dispossession, Sean Silver looks at ways that abstract theories referred to cognitive ecologies-systems crafted to enable certain kinds of thinking, such as libraries, workshops, notebooks, collections, and gardens. In doing so, he demonstrates the crossings-over of material into ideal, ideal into material, and the ways in which an idea might repeatedly turn up in an object, or a range of objects might repeatedly stand for an idea. A brief conclusion examines the afterlife of the metaphor of mind as collection, as it turns up in present-day cognitive studies. Modern cognitive theory has been applied to the microcomputer, and while the object is new, the habit is as old as the Enlightenment. By examining lived environments and embodied habits from 1660 to 1800, Silver demonstrates that the philosophical dualism that separated mind from body and idea from thing was inextricably established through active engagement with crafted ecologies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sean SilverPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780812247268ISBN 10: 0812247264 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 17 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: Welcome to the Museum Introduction Case 1. Metaphor 1. John Locke's Commonplace Book 2. John Milton's Bed 3. Mark Akenside's Museum Case 2. Design 4. Robert Hooke's Camera Obscura 5. Raphael's Judgment of Paris 6. A Gritty Pebble 7. An Oval Portrait of John Woodward 8. A Stone from the Grotto of Egeria 9. Venus at Her Toilet Case 3. Digression 10. The Iliad in a Nutshell 11. A Full Stop 12. A Conical Roman Tumulus 13. The Reception of Claudius 14. Addison's Walk Case 4. Inwardness 15. William Hay's Stone 16. Two Calculi Cut and Mounted in a Small Showcase 17. An Ampulla of the Blood of Thomas Becket 18. A Blue-Bound Copy of The Mysterious Mother Case 5. Conception 19. A Blank Sheet of Paper (1) 20. A Folio Sheet with Two Sketches of a Single Conception 21. A Triumph of Galatea 22. Joshua Reynolds, William Hunter Case 6. Dispossession 23. A Shilling 24. A Book of Accounts 25. A Blank Sheet of Paper (2) 26. A Ring Containing a Lock of Hair 27. The Lost Property Office 28. The Skeleton of Jonathan Wild Conclusion Notes Index AcknowledgmentsReviewsSean Silver is inspired by Bruno Latour to turn taxonomies into something more mobile and unexpected, representations of knowledge on the one hand and notices of privacy on the other. But it is Latour with a spice of Shandeism, where grand projects can end up as blank paper, and noble conceptions as wind and water. Silver shows how risky his kind of network can be. -Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University The Mind Is a Collection is brilliant, distinguished, thoughtful, impressively researched, and highly learned. -Blakey Vermeule, Stanford University Author InformationSean Silver is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Sean Silver's The Mind is a Collection is a two-part intellectual project featuring a virtual museum along with his book, The Mind is a Collection, which serves as both scholarly study and an exhibit catalogue. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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