Is Laurence Sterne’s Protagonist Tristram Shandy Embodied, Enacted or Extended?
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture October 1, 2019 George Rousseau
This chapter explores the ways in which Sterne in Tristram Shandy may have anticipatedaspects of the concepts of 4E cognition. It sets Sterne into his historical-philosophic milieu, especially in the dualist traditions of Locke and Hume, and seeks to understand how Sterne’s narrative and its protagonist are living systems embodying cognitive worlds. Autopoiesis, the term used to describe...