Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface : Welcome To The Museum -- Introduction -- Case 1. Metaphor -- Case 2. Design -- Case 3. Digression -- Case 4. Inwardness -- Case 5. Conception -- Case 6. Dispossession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection