Evolving Hamlet :seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection

• 作者: Fletcher, Angus,
• 出版: New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2011.
• 版本: 1st ed.
• 稽核項: xvi, 192 p. ;22 cm.
• 叢書名: Cognitive studies in literature and performance
• 標題: Philosophy of mind in literature. , History and criticism. , Philosophy. , Natural selection Philosophy. , English drama , English drama (Tragedy) , Evolution (Biology) , English drama 17th century -- History and criticism. , Natural selection , Philosophy of mind. , Evolution (Biology) Philosophy. , English drama (Tragedy) History and criticism. , Literature and science.
• ISBN: 0230111688 , 9780230111684
• 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規畫主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界
• 摘要: "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"--
• 系統號: 005236576
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