1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460180303321

Autore

Boyd Brian <1952->

Titolo

On the origin of stories [[electronic resource] ] : evolution, cognition, and fiction / / Brian Boyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05359-1

Descrizione fisica

1 recurso en línea (555 páginas)

Classificazione

EC 2490

Disciplina

809.3

801.92

Soggetti

Fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Fiction - Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-507) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction -- Part 1: Evolution and nature -- Evolution and human nature? -- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds -- The evolution of intelligence -- The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2: Evolution and art -- Art as adaptation? -- Art as cognitive play -- Art and attention -- From tradition to innovation -- Part 3: Evolution and fiction -- Art, narrative, fiction -- Understanding and recalling events -- Narrative: representing events -- Fiction: inventing events -- Fiction as adaptation -- Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: origins of stories -- Part 4: Phylogeny: the Odyssey -- Earning attention (1): natural patterns: character and plot -- Earning attention (s): open-ended patterns: ironies of structure -- The evolution of intelligence (1): in the here and now -- The evolution of intelligence (2): beyond the here and now -- The evolution of cooperation (1): expanding the circle -- The evolution of cooperation (2): punishment -- Part 5: Ontogeny: Horton hears a who! -- Levels of explanation: universal, local, and individual -- Levels of explanation: individuality again -- Levels of explanation: particular -- Meanings -- Conclusion: retrospect and prospects: evolution, literature, criticism.

Sommario/riassunto

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species,



evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd’s study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996397541003316

Autore

Fox John <fl. 1676.>

Titolo

Time and the end of time [[electronic resource] ] : in two discourses, the first about redemption of time, the second about consideration of our latter end / / by John Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed and are to be sold by G. Calvert and S. Sprint ..., 1674

Descrizione fisica

[2], 234 p

Soggetti

Death - Religious aspects

Christian life - Nonconformist authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996344224703316

Autore

Hostettler Karin (Universität Basel, Schweiz)

Titolo

Kritik - Selbstaffirmation - Othering : Immanuel Kants Denken der Zweckmässigkeit und die koloniale Episteme / Karin Hostettler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

3-7328-5176-1

3-8394-5176-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Edition Moderne Postmoderne

Soggetti

Aufklärung; Philosophie; Postkoloniale Studien; Immanuel Kant; Geschichtsphilosophie; Zweckmäßigkeit; Natur; Vernunft; Freiheit; Kultur; Anti-Imperialismus; Naturteleologie; Kritische Materialität; Deutsche Philosophiegeschichte; Philosophische Anthropologie; Postkolonialismus; Rassismus; Enlightenment; Philosophy; Postcolonial Studies; Philosophy of History; Suitability; Nature; Reason; Liberty; Culture; Anti Imperialism; Natureteleoligy; Critical Materiality; German History of Philosophy; Philosophical Anthropology; Postcolonialism; Racism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Inhalt    5  1 Einleitung    7  2 Auftakt: Vorkritische Schriften zu physiologischen, ästhetischen, nationalen und kulturellen Differenzen und Geschlecht    23  3 Entwicklungen und Verwicklungen des Begriffs der ›Menschenrasse‹    39  4 Die ›Keime‹ der Aufklärung: Zu Kants Geschichtsphilosophie    89  5 Die Kunst des kritischen Denkens: Kritik der ästhetischen Urteilskraft    119  6 Der Ort der kritischen Philosophie: Kritik der teleologischen Urteilskraft    165  7 Schluss    219  8 Danksagung    227  Literatur    229

Sommario/riassunto

Die Rassentheorie, die Geschichtsphilosophie, die Ästhetik und die Naturteleologie haben eine Gemeinsamkeit: In all diesen Themengebieten entwickelte Immanuel Kant ein Denken der Zweckmässigkeit. Die Fokussierung auf diesen Strang macht eine Verbindung sichtbar, die von seinen frühen Schriften zu den unterschiedlichen »Rassen« der Menschen hin zur Kritik der Urteilskraft und damit zu seiner Selbstreflexion über die kritische Philosophie



reicht. Karin Hostettler arbeitet das mit diesem Denken verbundene Othering und die damit einhergehende Selbstaffirmation heraus und zeigt so die Selbstverortung der kritischen Philosophie in einer kolonialen Episteme auf.