The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon: Explorations in Cognitive History

ISBN-13: 9781032146843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 330 str.

Subrata Dasgupta

Opis

By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies.

Spis treści

Prologue  1. The language of cognitive history  2. Renaissance creativity: a cognitive prehistory  3. The cognitive style of an early humanist  4. A shared memory revolution  5. Art-of-painting as a Renaissance artifact  6 .Utilitarianism of an unforgiving kind  7. Refute-and-replace: rejecting antiquity  8. ‘Galileo modern’ as a cognitive style  9. Epilogue Glossary of terms