Author: Ilie, Paul
Title: The Age of Minerva, Volume 2: Cognitive Discontinuities in 18th-Century Thought: From Body to Mind in Physiology & the Arts
Description: Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xi, 382 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Methodological Orientation: Polyps, Paradigms, & Poets; The Discontinuity Beneath Continuity; Metamorphosis of the Bat; The Idea of Chaos; The Cerebral Labyrinth; The Discontinuous Spiderweb; Theories of Vital Force, Matter, & Fiber; The Limitations of Brain Anatomy;The Polyp's Mind; The Epistemology of Aether; The Undermined Primacy of Visual Perception.

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