The Renaissance considered as a creative phenomenon : explorations in cognitive history /

"By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies. This book will be of interest not only to Renaissance scholars but also to stude...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dasgupta, Subrata (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
Subjects:	Renaissance > Italy. Renaissance. Creative ability. Cognitive psychology. Renaissance > Psychological aspects. Renaissance > Italy > Historiography. Renaissance > Historiography. Italy.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
The language of cognitive history
Renaissance creativity
a cognitive prehistory
The cognitive style of a renaissance humanist
A shared memory revolution
Art-of-painting as an artifact
Utilitarianism of an unforgiving kind
Refute-and-replace as a creative phenomenon
'Galileo modern' as a cognitive style
Epilogue
Glossary of terms
Bibliography
Index.