The Age of Minerva, Volume 2: Cognitive Discontinuities in Eighteenth-Century Thought--From Body to Mind in Physiology and the Arts

by Paul Ilie

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812233087
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	12/29/1995
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Ilie is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Editorial Reviews

In the second volume of a projected trilogy on the irrational underside of the Enlightenment project (following Counter-Rational Reason in the Eighteenth Century: Goya and the Paradigm of Unreason in Western Europe), Ilie inquires about the nature of the neural signal itself, with an emphasis on transformation: the change of material sense data into immaterial sensations and ideas: "Posing the issue in this way shifts the focus to the phenomena of signals: neural, engrammic, and finally linguistic" (Methodological Orientation). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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