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Evolving Hamlet : seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection
Author:	FletcherAngus, 1976-
Place of Publication:	New York
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2011
Description:	1 online resource (191 p.)
Series:	Cognitive studies in literature and performance
Subject:	English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism. -
Subject:	English drama - History and criticism. - 17th century -
Subject:	Philosophy of mind in literature. -
Subject:	Natural selection - Philosophy. -
Subject:	Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy. -
Subject:	Philosophy of mind. -
Subject:	Science and literature. -
Subject:	DRAMA - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118386
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	"Recent work in cognitive science has rooted our moral dispositions in the more ancient and less plastic regions of our brains, seeming to confirm Darwin's suspicion that a biological approach to human life must necessarily produce a narrowly conservative (and perhaps even immutable) account of ethics. This book, however, explores a now-forgotten suggestion made by William James and other early pioneers of cognitive science who saw art as a means to translate the experimental study of the mind into a skeptical, pluralist, and progressive approach to the good life. Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks that not only make us more resilient to the pressures of natural selection, but fulfill the human need for intentional life. Seen this way, art is not--as many recent cognitive scientists have suggested--simply a mirror of our natural mental functions. Rather, it is also an active contributor to new functions, a useful tool for translating the theoretical discoveries of science into progressive ethical practice"--
ISBN:	9780230118386electronic bk.
ISBN:	0230118380electronic bk.

Evolving Hamlet : seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection
Fletcher, Angus

Evolving Hamlet : seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection / Angus Fletcher. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 1 online resource (191 p.). - (Cognitive studies in literature and performance).
Description based on print version record..
ISBN 9780230118386ISBN 0230118380
English drama (Tragedy)English dramaPhilosophy of mind in literature.Natural selectionEvolution (Biology)Philosophy of mind.Science and literature.DRAMA -- History and criticism. -- History and criticism. -- Philosophy. -- Philosophy. -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. -- 17th century

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