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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton'>danieleaton</a>
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Friday, 01 November 2002 19:48 |
Book: Consciousness and the Novel, David Lodge
Edited excerpt: Sense and sensibility, guardian books
"...philosophy's "preoccupation with what we call consciousness now is recent - three and a half centuries perhaps." It is not, he says, merely that the word did not exist before then - neither did the concept. It was not coincidental that this same period saw the emergence of a new form of narrative literature in Europe which soon became dominant. Ian Watt, in his classic study of that phenomenon, The Rise of the Novel, suggests that "both the philosophical and the literary innovations must be seen as parallel manifestations of larger change - that vast transformation of Western civilization since the Renaissance which has replaced the unified world picture of the Middle Ages
with another very different one - one which presents us, essentially, with a developing but unplanned aggregate of particular individuals ..."
named: David Chalmers, Joseph Levine, Francis Crick, James Trefil, Noam Chomsky...
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