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  1. Evolving Hamlet
    seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection
    Autor*in: Fletcher, Angus
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY [u.a.]

    "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... mehr

    Standort:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signatur:
    2011 A 7694
    Fernleihe:
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    Signatur:
    2011 A 6340
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund (SWB)

    Standort:
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Signatur:
    61.1204
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

     

    "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"--

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780230111684; 0230111688
    Weitere Identifier:
    9780230111684
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1. ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Cognitive studies in literature and performance
    Schlagworte: English drama (Tragedy); English drama; Philosophy of mind in literature; Natural selection; Evolution (Biology); Philosophy of mind; Literature and science; English drama (Tragedy); English drama; Philosophy of mind in literature; Natural selection; Evolution (Biology); Philosophy of mind; Science and literature
    Umfang: XVI, 192 S., 22 cm