Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2015 Hard cover Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 392 p. Contains: Halftones, black & white, Line drawings, black & white. Audience: General/trade.

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2015 Hard Cover. xv, 372 pp. A pathbreaking introduction to eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind that recasts the grand narrative of the Enlightenment in terms of its tropes and figures. An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire’s classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek’s massive online archive, this volume constitutes a veritable treasury of mental metaphorics. Dividing the book into eleven broad metaphorical categories―Animals, Coinage, Court, Empire, Fetters, Impressions, Inhabitants, Metal, Mirror, Rooms, and Writing―Pasanek maps out constellations of metaphors. He frames his collection of literary excerpts in each section with a more descriptive and theoretical discussion of what he calls “desultory reading,” a form of unsystematic perusal of writing frequently employed by Enlightenment thinkers. By surveying the printed past alongside the digital present, the book treats eighteenth-century writing as its topic while essentially exemplifying its rhetorical approach. More than an exercise in quotation, this ...

ISBN10: 1421416883, ISBN13: 9781421416885, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 1421416883, ISBN13: 9781421416885, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover
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