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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture - Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture (Hardcover)
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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture - Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture (Hardcover)
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A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle
both factual and counter factual scenarios. This brings enormous
advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the
boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the pathological. In
the early modern period, particularly, explorations of the mind's
ability to roam beyond the factual became mainstream. It was an age
of perspective art, anamorphism and optical illusions; of prophecy,
apocalyptic dreams, and visions; and of fascination with the
supernatural. This volume takes a fresh look at early modern
understandings of how to distinguish reality from dream, or
delusion from belief. Opening with cognitivist and philosophical
perspectives, Cognitive Confusions then examines test cases from
across European literature, providing an original documentation of
the mind in its most creative and pathological states.
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