| Description |
1 online resource (x, 307 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : nothing from nothing -- Actions, agents, causes -- Consciousness and mental causation : Lucretius, Rochester, Locke -- Rochester's mind -- Uneasiness, or Locke among others -- Haywood and consent -- Action and inaction in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. |
| Summary |
How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists were all concerned with the place of the mind in the world. These writers asked whether belief, desire, and emotion were part of nature--and thus subject to laws of cause and effect--or in a special place outside the natural order. Kramnick puts particular emphasis on those who tried to make actions compatible with external determination and to blur the boundary between mind and matter. He follows a long tradition of examining the close relation between literary and philosophical writing during the period, but fundamentally revises the terrain. Rather than emphasizing psychological depth and interiority or asking how literary works were understood as true or fictional, he situates literature alongside philosophy as jointly interested in discovering how minds work./ From the publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Act (Philosophy) in literature.
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Act (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Philosophy of mind in literature.
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Philosophy of mind in literature. |
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Causation in literature.
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Causation in literature. |
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Philosophy, English -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, English. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804770514 (DLC) 2010010565 (OCoLC)667577050 |
| ISBN |
9780804775120 (electronic book) |
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0804775125 (electronic book) |
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9780804770514 |
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0804770514 |
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9780804770521 |
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0804770522 |
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