Reading Descartes otherwise : blind, mad, dreamy, and bad / Kyoo Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Kyoo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of 'Cartesian rationality.' In doing so, it discovers dynamic signs of spectral alterity lodged both at the core and on the edges of modern Cartesian subjectivity. Calling for a Copernican reorientation of the very notion 'Cartesianism,' the book's series of close, creatively critical readings of Descartes' signature images brings the dramatic forces, moments, and scenes of the cogito into our own contemporary moment.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""PREAMBLE I If Descartes Remains Overread and Underexplored . . .""; ""PREAMBLE II Descartes Needs Rereading""; ""A STAGE SETUP Reframing “Jeux Descartes�""; ""SCENE 1 Blind Vision: A Photographic Touch""; ""SCENE 2 Elastic Madness: An Allegorical Comedy""; ""SCENE 3 Philopoetic Somnambulism: An Imaginary Freedom""; ""SCENE 4 Cornered Reflection: With and around an Evil Genius""; ""Notes ""; ""References ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780823261253

0823261255

9780823250738

0823250733

9780823250493

0823250490

OCLC:

958583627