Paranoia and Modernity
Subtitle: Cervantes to Rousseau
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801474064
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; European - General; Mind & Body
First sentence: Before an intentional action can be performed by a human agent, it is necessary for that agent to have attained some grasp of an existing stare of affairs, to have conceived another state of affairs preferable to it, and to have a sense of the capacity to bring the second state out of the first.