Subrata Dasgupta

The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in Cognitive History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000514889
• Artikelnr.: 63023209

Autorenporträt

Subrata Dasgupta is Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing & Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, where from 1993 to 2018 he held the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair and from 1999 to 2013 served as director of the Institute of Cognitive Science. He has authored numerous works on the cognitive, historical, and computational aspects of creative phenomena, especially in science, technology, intellectual movements, and art including, most recently, A Cognitive Historical Approach to Creativity (Routledge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. The language of cognitive history 2. Renaissance creativity: a
cognitive prehistory 3. The cognitive style of an early humanist 4. A
shared memory revolution 5. Art-of-painting as a Renaissance artifact 6
.Utilitarianism of an unforgiving kind 7. Refute-and-replace: rejecting
antiquity 8. 'Galileo modern' as a cognitive style 9. Epilogue Glossary of
terms