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 ldquo;theatrical cognitionrdquo; and ldquo;narrative cognition;rdquo; drawing both on scholarship on literary genre and mode; and also on the work of a number of philosophers and psychologists; in particular Descartesrsquo;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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