Beschreibung:
The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.
1. The Extended Mind 2. Extending Literary Theory and the Psychoanalytic Tradition 3. Renaissance Subjects: Ensouled and Embodied4. Renaissance Language and Memory Forms 5. Renaissance Intrasubjectivity and Intersubjectivity6. Shakespeare: Natural-Born Mirrors 7. Shakespeare: Perspectives and Words of Glass Epilogue