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The matter of mind : reason and experience in the age of Descartes / Christopher Braider.
LIBRA PQ245 .B73 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braider, Christopher, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- France--Intellectual life--17th century.
- France.
- Intellectual life.
- Experience in literature.
- Reason in literature.
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Influence.
- Descartes, René.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Front Matter: Placing Descartes's Meditations 34
- 2 A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's the Judgment of Solomon 66
- 3 The Witch from Colchis: Corneille's Médée, Chimène's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius 122
- 4 Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle 150
- 5 The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics 173
- 6 Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, 'Sur l'Equivoque' 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442643482
- 144264348X
- OCLC:
- 745900490
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