Coming To

Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England

AvTimothy M. Harrison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, “conscience” made a sudden shift to “consciousness,” he traces a line that leads from the philosophy of René Descartes to the poetry of John Milton, from the prenatal memories of theologian Thomas Traherne to the unresolved perspective on natality, consciousness, and ethics in the philosophy of John Locke. Each of these figures responded to the first-person perspective by turning to the origins of how human thought began. Taken together, as Harrison shows, this unlikely group of thinkers sheds new light on the emergence of the concept of consciousness and the significance of human natality to central questions in the fields of literature, philosophy, and the history of science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226725093

Utforska kategorier

Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Timothy M. Harrison is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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"The idea that Eden was a place of discovery from the start is also the motivating insight of Harrison’s Coming To. Before Milton’s time, Harrison argues, 'consciousness' was a moral faculty, interchangeable with what God in book 3 of Paradise Lost calls 'my umpire conscience,' 'place[d] within' fallen humanity 'as a guide.' . . . Milton’s—and Harrison’s—minute attention to the fashioning of each blank verse line pays off in startling insights into the texture of what Milton’s contemporaries were just beginning to call consciousness.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: BeginningsPart 1: Milton and the Birth of ConsciousnessChapter 1: Unexperienced ThoughtChapter 2: Human Nature ExperiencedPart 2: Traherne and the Consciousness of BirthChapter 3: From Creation to BirthChapter 4: In UteroPart 3: Locke and the Life of ConsciousnessChapter 5: Natality and EmpiricismCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex