Postcognitivist Beckett

by Olga Beloborodova

The aim of this Element is to offer a reassessment of Beckett's alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition - a cluster of present-day philosophical theories that question the mind's brain-bound nature and see cognition primarily as a process of interaction between the human brain and the environment it operates in. The principal argument defended here is that, despite the Cartesian bias introduced by early Beckett scholarship,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108708617
• ISBN13: 9781108708616
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"