Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : science, cognition, and culture
  • I. Narrative structures
  • Cognition and narration : binary structures and the nature of meaning
  • Structures of meaning : the logic of narrative and the constitution of literary genres
  • Why are there old people? Narration, natural history, and the situation of cognition
  • II. Cases of cognition
  • Special cases : Freud, Einstein, and the dream of understanding
  • Psychoanalysis and narration : Lacan, Greimas, and the desire of cognition
  • The plain sense of things : aging and the rhetoric of narration
  • III. Cultural discourse
  • The institution of criticism : pedagogy, publishing, and oppositional criticism.