Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes / James Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, James (Assistant Professor), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Criticism and interpretation.

Descartes, René.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Fables, French.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Philosophy, French--17th century.

Philosophy, French.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 213 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes's use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes's philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction : References

2. Fable in The World and the Discourse : Fable and poetry

Fable and pedagogy

References

3. Fable-structure or -logic : Fable and other forms

Fable and deception

4. Method : Simplicity and complexity

Error and inexact science

Histoire, rule-obedience, and rule-generation

5. Imagination : Pedagogy and imagination

Space and fable

Will, wonder, and imagination

6. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319702378

9783319702377

OCLC:

1028557377