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The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical experience. The latter became characterized by the distance and abstraction of reading. How Do I Know Thee? explores the ways in which literature, philosophy, and psychology approach social cognition, or how we come to know others. Richard E. Goodkin describes a central opposition between what he calls “theatrical cognition” and “narrative cognition,” drawing both on scholarship on literary genre and mode, and also on the work of a number of philosophers and psychologists, in particular Descartes’s theory of cognition, Freudian psychoanalysis, mid‑twentieth‑century behaviorism, and the field of cognitive science. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of the classical period but also to those in the corresponding disciplines.
 

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Editorial series, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction: The Horizons of Personality
  2. pp. 3-30
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  1. Part One. Wars of Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
  1. Chapter One. “Clear and Distinct”: Two Aspects of Cognition in Descartes
  2. pp. 33-56
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  1. Chapter Two. The (Dis-)Unity of Time, Place, and Cognition
  2. pp. 57-80
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  1. Part Two. Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Twentieth-Century Psychology
  1. Chapter Three. Freud between Drama and Narrative
  2. pp. 83-112
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  1. Chapter Four. Modalities of Personality in Behaviorism, Narrative Psychology, and Dual-Process Theory
  2. pp. 113-134
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  1. Part Three. Reading French Classicism, Cognitively: Corneille, Molière, Lafayette, and La Bruyère
  1. Chapter Five. Corneille’s Novelistic Comedies
  2. pp. 137-166
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  1. Chapter Six. Molière and the Novel
  2. pp. 167-198
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  1. Chapter Seven. Narrativity and Theatricality in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Montpensier, Zaïde, and La Princesse de Clèves
  2. pp. 199-240
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  1. Chapter Eight. La Bruyère: Dramatist, Narrativist, Psychologist
  2. pp. 241-280
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  1. Conclusion. “Taking Note” of Personality
  2. pp. 281-284
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 285-302
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 303-310
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 311-315
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