Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture

by Olivia Smith, Ita Mac Carthy, Kirsti Sellevold, et al.

Book Overview

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counterfactual 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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781883424
• ISBN13: 9781781883426
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"