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Preface

Introduction: Psychological Interiority versus Self-Talk

I. The Problem for Which Psychology Furnished a Solution

1. The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime

2. The Revolutionary Schooling of Imagination

Ii. The Politics of Selfhood

3. Is There a Self in This Mental Apparatus?

4. An A Priori Self for the Bourgeois Male: Victor Cousin's Project

5. Cousinian Hegemony

6. Religious and Secular Access to the Vie Intérieure: Renan at the Crossroads

7. A Palpable Self for the Socially Marginal: The Phrenological Alternative

Epilogue

Notes

Note on Sources

Index