Cover Image

Culture and Cognition : the Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry /

Show other versions (2)

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas--the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the di...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schleifer, Ronald (Author), Davis, Robert Con (Author), Mergler, Nancy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Cognition.
Communication and culture.
Criticism.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Psychoanalysis.
Science > Philosophy.
Semiotics.
Cognition
Communication et culture.
Critique.
Discours narratif.
Psychanalyse.
cognition.
psychoanalysis.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Communication and culture
Criticism
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Psychoanalysis
Science > Philosophy
Semiotics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Science, Cognition, and Culture
  • I. NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
  • 1. Cognition and Narration: Binary Structures and the Nature of Meaning
  • 2. Structures of Meaning: The Logic of Narrative and the Constitution of Literary Genres
  • 3. Why Are There Old People? Narration, Natural History, and the Situation of Cognition
  • II. CASES OF COGNITION
  • 4. Special Cases: Freud, Einstein, and the Dream of Understanding
  • 5. Psychoanalysis and Narration: Lacan, Greimas, and the Desire of Cognition
  • 6. The Plain Sense of Things: Aging and the Rhetoric of Narration
  • III. CULTURAL DISCOURSE
  • 7. The Institution of Criticism: Pedagogy, Publishing, and Oppositional Criticism
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index