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Raphaele Garrod
Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.
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Contemporary historiography holds that it was the practices and technologies underpinning both the Great Voyages and the ‘New Science’, as opposed to traditional book learning, which led to the major…
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This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to change hearts -that is, convert or reform-both in Europe and in the…
A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of Rene Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.
Garrod, Smith and the contributors of the volume envisage the longue duree poetics of an early modern genre. They interpret its poetics alongside its various epistemic agenda and make a…
Alexander Marr,Raphaele Garrod,Jose Ramon Marcaida,Richard J. Oosterhoff
A Prehistory of Genius
