On Descartes' Passive Thought : The Myth of Cartesian Dualism / Jean-Luc Marion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marion, Jean-Luc, author.

Contributor:

Gschwandtner, Christina M.

Standardized Title:

Sur la pensée passive de Descartes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Mind and body--Philosophy.

Mind and body.

Philosophy, French--17th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On Descartes' Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus on Descartes's theory of morals and the passions. Descartes has long been associated with mind-body dualism, but Marion argues here that this is a historical misattribution, popularized by Malebranche and popular ever since both within the academy and with the general public. Actually, Marion shows, Descartes held a holistic conception of body and mind. He called it the meum corpus, a passive mode of thinking, which implies far more than just pure mind-rather, it signifies a mind directly connected to the body: the human being that I am. Understood in this new light, the Descartes Marion uncovers through close readings of works such as Passions of the Soul resists prominent criticisms leveled at him by twentieth-century figures like Husserl and Heidegger, and even anticipates the non-dualistic, phenomenological concepts of human being discussed today. This is a momentous book that no serious historian of philosophy will be able to ignore.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator's Introduction

Preface

Bibliographic Note

Introduction

1. The Existence of Material Things or the "Scandal of Philosophy

2. Bodies and My Flesh

3. The Indubitable and the Unnoticed

4. The Third Primitive Notion

5. Union and Unity

6. Passion and Passivity

Conclusion

Index of Names

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226192611

022619261X

OCLC:

1029200661