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000438222 1001_ $$aFletcher, Angus,$$d1976-
000438222 24510 $$aEvolving Hamlet$$h[electronic resource] :$$bseventeenth-century English tragedy and the ethics of natural selection /$$cAngus Fletcher.
000438222 250__ $$a1st ed.
000438222 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2011.
000438222 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvi, 192 p.)
000438222 4901_ $$aCognitive studies in literature and performance
000438222 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000438222 5050_ $$aIntroduction: The Descent of Ethics -- Faustus, Macbeth, and the Riddle of Tomorrow -- Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof -- The Indian Emperour and the Reason of New World Conflict -- Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare -- King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy -- The Progress of Ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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000438222 520__ $$a"Recent work in cognitive science has rooted our moral dispositions in the more ancient and less plastic regions of our brains, seeming to confirm Darwin's suspicion that a biological approach to human life must necessarily produce a narrowly conservative (and perhaps even immutable) account of ethics. This book, however, explores a now-forgotten suggestion made by William James and other early pioneers of cognitive science who saw art as a means to translate the experimental study of the mind into a skeptical, pluralist, and progressive approach to the good life. Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks that not only make us more resilient to the pressures of natural selection, but fulfill the human need for intentional life. Seen this way, art is not--as many recent cognitive scientists have suggested--simply a mirror of our natural mental functions. Rather, it is also an active contributor to new functions, a useful tool for translating the theoretical discoveries of science into progressive ethical practice"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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000438222 650_0 $$aEnglish drama (Tragedy)$$xHistory and criticism.
000438222 650_0 $$aEnglish drama$$y17th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000438222 650_0 $$aPhilosophy of mind in literature.
000438222 650_0 $$aNatural selection$$xPhilosophy.
000438222 650_0 $$aEvolution (Biology)$$xPhilosophy.
000438222 650_0 $$aPhilosophy of mind.
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