The matter of mind : reason and experience in the age of Descartes

The matter of mind : reason and experience in the age of Descartes / Christopher Braider.

"What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad...

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Main Author: Braider, Christopher, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650 > Influence.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
Descartes, René > 1596-1650
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650 > influenser.
1600-1699
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Experience in literature.
Reason in literature.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Experience in literature
French literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Reason in literature
Erfarenhet i litteraturen.
Förnuftet.
Fransk litteratur > historia > 1600-talet.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Experience and the matter of mind : dualism, classicism, and the myth of the modern subject in seventeenth-century France
  • Front matter : placing Descartes's Meditations
  • A state of mind : embodying the sovereign in Poussin's The judgment of Solomon
  • The witch from Colchis : Corneille's Médée, Chimène's Le Cid, and the invention of classical genius
  • Seeing is believing : image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle
  • The ghost in the machine : reason, faith, and experience in Pascalian apologetics
  • Des mots sans fin : meaning and the end(s) of history in Boileau's Satire XII, 'Sur l'equivoque'.

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