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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evolving Hamlet/ Angus Fletcher.
Reminder of title:	seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection /
Author:	Fletcher, Angus,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (191 p.)
Subject:	English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118386
ISBN:	9780230118386 (electronic bk.)

Evolving Hamlet = seventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection /
Fletcher, Angus,1976-

Evolving Hamletseventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection /[electronic resource] :Angus Fletcher. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (191 p.) - Cognitive studies in literature and performance. - Cognitive studies in literature and performance..

"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: 9780230118386 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English drama (Tragedy)
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR678.T7 / F54 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.05120936

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