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The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Hardcover

Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book, Book 72

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110721910
ISBN13: 9783110721911
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: May 10 2021
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Challenging the 'success story' of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the 'development' of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them.

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