Unconscious Memory - Couverture souple

Butler, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438517599 ISBN 13 : 9781438517599

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1880 “Unconscious Memory” was largely written to show the relation of Butler’s views to Hering’s, and contains an exquisitely written translation of the Address. Hering does, indeed, anticipate Butler, and that in language far more suitable to the persuasion of the scientific public. It contains a subsidiary hypothesis that memory has for its mechanism special vibrations of the protoplasm, and the acquired capacity to respond to such vibrations once felt upon their repetition. Samuel Butler (4 or 5 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey which remain in use to this day.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Unconscious Memory (1880) By Samuel Butler Where do memories go when they are not in consciousness? This book argues that human ‘progress’ results from ‘strokes of cunning – to a sense of need, and to study of the past and present which have given shrewd people a key with which to unlock the chambers of the future’. Butler believed that instinct was inherited memory and disagreed with the view of a world shaped by natural selection and Darwinian theory. While Butler’s theory may not have proved scientifically convincing, his views on unconscious memory are considered an anticipation of the Freudian subconscious and social psychology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438517599
• ISBN 13: 9781438517599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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