The performance of analysis : habit and conversion in seventeenth-century French thought
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation examines a cognitive model for conversion, "the performance of analysis", which was prevalent in seventeenth-century French thought. According to the model, an actor seeking conversion should begin by acting as if he or she were already what he or she wants to become, imitating the actions of one already embodying the hypothetical state; habituation then actualizes that which begins as an imaginary hypothesis into a concrete reality. I argue that this model for conversion was correlated to mathematical practice in the period, and I trace its manifestations in Descartes, Pascal, Rotrou, Molière, and La Rochefoucauld.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Hume, Kathryn Elizabeth |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature |
| Primary advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
| Advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kathryn Elizabeth Hume. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Kathryn Elizabeth Hume
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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