Making Mind

Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3895-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature posits the genesis of narrative as an adaptive function stemming from consciousness and moral sense. The book is unique with its idea of the individual character evolving narrative in relation to the group. Central to the argument is the claim that prehistorically, consciousness and moral sense intersected to form narrative. More than addressing the origin of story, the book examines and explains the evolution of narrative. The book is an interesting study of how our species-inherited moral sense can differ dramatically from one individual to another. While mores pertain to a group, narrative comes from and is processed by the individual and reaches its high point in the novel. We see how the moral sense works in characters as a monitor, and we feel it operating in us as readers in terms of approval, or not.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tague, Gregory F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section One: Philosophy
Section Two: Science
Section Three: Literature

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory F. Tague is a professor of literary studies and founder and senior developer of The Evolutionary Studies Collaborative at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York. His work leans toward reader-response ethical criticism and the history of ideas by examining major English novels from the years 1720 to 1930 and, more specifically, falls in line with evolutionary cultural studies. His previous books include Character and Consciousness: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence (2005) and Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Henry James (2008).