{"product_id":"the-mind-is-a-collection-9780812247268","title":"The Mind Is a Collection","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work of reason and imagination, they modeled their powers of intellect in terms of collecting, cataloging, and classification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mind Is a Collection\u003c\/i\u003e approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind from a material point of view. Each of the book''s six chapters is organized as a series of linked exhibits that speak to a single aspect of Enlightenment philosophies of mind. From his first chapter, on metaphor, to the last one, on dispossession, Sean Silver looks at ways that abstract theories referred to cognitive ecologies—systems crafted to enable certain kinds of thinking, such as libraries, workshops, notebooks, collections, and gardens. In doing so,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sean Silver is inspired by Bruno Latour to turn taxonomies into something more mobile and unexpected, representations of knowledge on the one hand and notices of privacy on the other. But it is Latour with a spice of Shandeism, where grand projects can end up as blank paper and noble conceptions as wind and water. Silver shows how risky his kind of network can be.\" * Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Mind Is a Collection\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliant, distinguished, thoughtful, impressively researched, and highly learned.\" * Blakey Vermeule, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Welcome to the Museum\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Case 1. Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e 1. John Locke's Commonplace Book\u003cbr\u003e 2. John Milton's Bed\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mark Akenside's Museum\u003cbr\u003e Case 2. Design\u003cbr\u003e 4. Robert Hooke's Camera Obscura\u003cbr\u003e 5. Raphael's \u003ci\u003eJudgment of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Gritty Pebble\u003cbr\u003e 7. An Oval Portrait of John Woodward\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Stone from the Grotto of Egeria\u003cbr\u003e 9. Venus at Her Toilet\u003cbr\u003e Case 3. Digression\u003cbr\u003e 10. The \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e in a Nutshell\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Full Stop\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Conical Roman Tumulus\u003cbr\u003e 13. \u003ci\u003eThe Reception of Claudius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Addison's Walk\u003cbr\u003e Case 4. Inwardness\u003cbr\u003e 15. William Hay's Stone\u003cbr\u003e 16. Two Calculi Cut and Mounted in a Small Showcase\u003cbr\u003e 17. An Ampulla of the Blood of Thomas Becket\u003cbr\u003e 18. A Blue-Bound Copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Case 5. Conception\u003cbr\u003e 19. A Blank Sheet of Paper (1)\u003cbr\u003e 20. A Folio Sheet with Two Sketches of a Single Conception\u003cbr\u003e 21. \u003ci\u003eA Triumph of Galatea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. Joshua Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eWilliam Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Case 6. Dispossession\u003cbr\u003e 23. A Shilling\u003cbr\u003e 24. A Book of Accounts\u003cbr\u003e 25. A Blank Sheet of Paper (2)\u003cbr\u003e 26. A Ring Containing a Lock of Hair\u003cbr\u003e 27. The Lost Property Office\u003cbr\u003e 28. The Skeleton of Jonathan Wild\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405725901143,"sku":"9780812247268","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247268.jpg?v=1730493405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mind-is-a-collection-9780812247268","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}