ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows the modernist evocations of the human mind, which were so important to Virginia Woolf and which James Joyce is equally famous for, are not confined to a spiritual interior. The notion of the 'extended mind' is the most suitable paradigm because, unlike enactivism and radical enactivism, it does not concentrate on 'basic minds' and basic sensorimotor activity. Joyce's mind and the fictional minds he evokes in his works are not 'basic' but 'scaffolded' and representation cannot be downplayed since language plays such a crucial role in the genesis of Finnegans Wake. The book investigates how the 'stuff' informs the process of thinking and writing, and how 'Work in Progress' develops from Ulysses. This interaction with 'stuff' works on three levels: the level of the text, the level of its reception and the level of its production.
