![]() *”Strategic thinking is not the same as selfishness” (6). ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Chwe stays focused on Austen, he makes some interesting points. He proposes that the use of game theory “allows us to interpret many details” that we often gloss over while reading Austen and allows Austen to explore “several explanations for cluelessness” (3). He explains game theory using specific examples from Austen, so I had no trouble understanding the diagrams (game trees), though when I first saw them, I was concerned this might not be for me. Austen, Chwe tells us, coined the term “imaginist,” which is “possibly the first specialized term for game theorist” (in Emma, no less!) (183). Chwe argues that “exploring strategic thinking, theoretically and not just for practical advantage, is Austen’s explicit intention” and that Austen’s novels show that “strategizing together in a partnership is the surest foundation for intimate relationships” (1). My first impression was that he is funny and sounds like a nice guy-showing gratitude to UCLA for hiring both him and his wife and thus “making family life possible” and then teasing the modern reader who just might be reading these words “on some sort of device with an off switch” (xii). ![]() In the preface, Chwe acknowledges his friends and colleagues “in reverse alphabetical order” (xi). ![]()
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