LEADER 03867nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910809464403321 005 20240513063146.0 010 $a0-8047-7512-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775120 035 $a(CKB)2670000000061612 035 $a(EBL)618850 035 $a(OCoLC)680036516 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000410932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12144834 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000410932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10354771 035 $a(PQKB)11109742 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC618850 035 $a(DE-B1597)564634 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775120 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL618850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10428914 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769378 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000061612 100 $a20100311d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson /$fJonathan Kramnick 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7052-2 311 $a0-8047-7051-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tActions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Nothing from Nothing --$t1. Actions, Agents, Causes --$t2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke --$t3. Rochester?s Mind --$t4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others --$t5. Haywood and Consent --$t6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson?s Clarissa --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAct (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aPhilosophy of mind in literature 606 $aCausation in literature 606 $aPhilosophy, English$y17th century 606 $aPhilosophy, English$y18th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAct (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind in literature. 615 0$aCausation in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy, English 615 0$aPhilosophy, English 676 $a820.9/384 700 $aKramnick$b Jonathan Brody$01630822 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809464403321 996 $aActions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson$94022371 997 $aUNINA