03903nam 2200721Ia 450 991045964980332120200520144314.00-8047-7512-510.1515/9780804775120(CKB)2670000000061612(EBL)618850(OCoLC)680036516(SSID)ssj0000410932(PQKBManifestationID)12144834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000410932(PQKBWorkID)10354771(PQKB)11109742(MiAaPQ)EBC618850(DE-B1597)564634(DE-B1597)9780804775120(Au-PeEL)EBL618850(CaPaEBR)ebr10428914(OCoLC)1178769378(EXLCZ)99267000000006161220100311d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrActions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson[electronic resource] /Jonathan KramnickStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7052-2 0-8047-7051-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson --Contents --Preface --Introduction: Nothing from Nothing --1. Actions, Agents, Causes --2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke --3. Rochester’s Mind --4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others --5. Haywood and Consent --6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa --Notes --IndexHow do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists were all concerned with the place of the mind in the world. These writers asked whether belief, desire, and emotion were part of nature—and thus subject to laws of cause and effect—or in a special place outside the natural order. Kramnick puts particular emphasis on those who tried to make actions compatible with external determination and to blur the boundary between mind and matter. He follows a long tradition of examining the close relation between literary and philosophical writing during the period, but fundamentally revises the terrain. Rather than emphasizing psychological depth and interiority or asking how literary works were understood as true or fictional, he situates literature alongside philosophy as jointly interested in discovering how minds work.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismAct (Philosophy) in literaturePhilosophy of mind in literatureCausation in literaturePhilosophy, English17th centuryPhilosophy, English18th centuryElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Act (Philosophy) in literature.Philosophy of mind in literature.Causation in literature.Philosophy, EnglishPhilosophy, English820.9/384Kramnick Jonathan Brody850925MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459649803321Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson2452557UNINA