Echo Objects The Cognitive Work of Images

Name: Echo Objects The Cognitive Work of Images
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ISBN: 9780226770529

ISBN-10: 0226770524

ISBN-13: 9780226770529

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barbara Maria Stafford

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Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities. In 'Echo Objects' she argues that the humanities should sieze upon the exciting neuroscientific discoveries that are illuminating the underpinnings of cultural objects.

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.85" wide x 0.99" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Ralph LaRossa is professor of sociology at Georgia State University and the author of several books, including The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Form as Figuring It Out: Toward a Cognitive History of Images



Compressive Compositions: Emblem, Symbol, Symbiogenesis



Mimesis Again! Inferring from Appearances



Primal Visions: The Geography of Interiority



How Patterns Meet: From Representation to Mental Representation



Impossible Will? Unconscious Organization, Conscious Focus


Coda: Reverberations


Notes


Index