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I call this two-part talk “Discourses of the Nerve”, having developed it as part of a larger project on the discourses of mind and body on which I have been engaged for the last few years (Rousseau, 1975); but in different settings and circumstances than this one it could as well have been called “The Product of Literature and Science”, for — as you will see in Part 2 — I am concerned as much with the product of our activity, with the finished object, the eventual discourse, the narrative produced at the end of the process we are beginning to call ‘Literature and Science’, as with the discourses themselves.
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Rousseau, G.S. (1989). Discourses of the Nerve. In: Amrine, F. (eds) Literature and Science as Modes of Expression. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2297-6_2
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