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Challenging the 'success story' of curiosity from original sin to
intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological
approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural
network based on current research in information technology and
neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the
'development' of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology
of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction
of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as
exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses
on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long'
Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of
boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or
academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from
all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current
debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy's history of ideas
in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an
indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental
yet unresolved questions of 'identity' or 'truth', and its
potential as cura, the care for others and the world.
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