{"product_id":"actions-and-objects-from-hobbes-jonathan-kramnick-9780804770514","title":"Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson","description":"How do minds cause events in the world? How does \u003ci\u003ewanting\u003c\/i\u003e to write a letter \u003ci\u003ecause\u003c\/i\u003e a person's hands to move across the page, or \u003ci\u003ebelieving\u003c\/i\u003e something to be true \u003ci\u003ecause\u003c\/i\u003e a person to make a promise? In \u003ci\u003eActions and Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists were all concerned with the place of the mind in the world. These writers asked whether belief, desire, and emotion were part of nature--and thus subject to laws of cause and effect--or in a special place outside the natural order. Kramnick puts particular emphasis on those who tried to make actions compatible with external determination and to blur the boundary between mind and matter. He follows a long tradition of examining the close relation between literary and philosophical writing during the period, but fundamentally revises the terrain. Rather than emphasizing psychological depth and interiority or asking how literary works were understood as true or fictional, he situates literature alongside philosophy as jointly interested in discovering how minds work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Kramnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804770514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804770514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011","brand":"Jonathan Kramnick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065149665535,"sku":"9780804770514","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3c74d20-7811-44e2-acf0-b4295c2ff97c.jpg?v=1768673323","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/actions-and-objects-from-hobbes-jonathan-kramnick-9780804770514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}