LEADER 04177cam 2200613 i 4500001 on1305943657 003 OCoLC 005 20230803142921.0 008 220228t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 2022009827 019 1350635706 020 9780226183862 |qhardcover 020 0226183866 |qhardcover 020 |z9780226820750 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) 40031991312 035 40031991312 035 (OCoLC)1305943657 |z(OCoLC)1350635706 040 ICU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dBDX |dYDX |dOCLCF |dVAMVE |dUKMGB |dMNN |dCDX |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-uk-st 050 00 B1402.E55 |bE33 2023 082 00 192 |223/eng/20220325 100 1 Eddy, Matthew, |d1972- |eauthor. |=^A796290 245 10 Media & the mind : |bart, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700-1830 / |cMatthew Daniel Eddy. 246 3 Media and the mind 264 1 Chicago, IL ;London : |bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2023. 264 4 |c©2023 300 xviii, 512 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Recrafting notebooks -- Writing -- Codexing -- Annotating -- Categorizing -- Drawing -- Mapping -- Systemizing -- Diagramming -- Circulating -- Rethinking manuscripts. 520 "Reason is often thought of as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment reason was also seen as a process, as a set of skills enacted on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these skills learned? Concentrating on the notebooks created by Scottish students over the course of the long eighteenth century, Matthew Eddy argues that notekeeping was a mode of writing and rewriting reason. He reveals it as a capability-building exercise that enabled students to mobilize everyday forms of material culture in a way that empowered them to judge and enact the enlightened principles they encountered in the classroom. The cognitive skills required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason-they were part of reason itself. The book begins by problematizing John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although it is one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that notekeepers learned to draw between reasoning and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the rest of the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship from the bottom up. Media and the Mind will prove useful to those interested in book history, manuscript culture, history of education, history of childhood, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, and the Enlightenment broadly understood"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Enlightenment. |=^A18215 650 0 Philosophy |zScotland |xHistory. |=^A214 650 0 Note-taking. |=^A73220 650 0 Philosophy, Modern |y18th century. |=^A37428 650 6 Siècle des Lumières. 650 6 Philosophie |zÉcosse |xHistoire. 650 6 Prise de notes. 650 6 Philosophie |y18e siècle. 650 7 Enlightenment. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00912527 650 7 Note-taking. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01039590 650 7 Philosophy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01060777 650 7 Philosophy, Modern. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01061071 651 7 Scotland. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206715 |?UNAUTHORIZED 648 7 1700-1799 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 949 |i30372017707727 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s65.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 6281640