Reading Descartes Otherwise : Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad / Kyoo Lee.
Lee, Kyoo, author.
2014
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Title Reading Descartes Otherwise : Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad / Kyoo Lee.
Author Lee, Kyoo, author.
ISBN 9780823261260
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823261260
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823261260 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 194
Summary Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes' Meditations-namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the bad-Reading Descartes Otherwise 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. The author patiently unravels the knotted skeins of ambiguity that have been spun within philosophical modernity out of such clichés as "Descartes, the abstract modern subject" and "Descartes, the father of modern philosophy"-a figure who is at once everywhere and nowhere. In the process, she revitalizes and reframes the legacy of Cartesian modernity, in a way more mindful of its proto-phenomenological traces.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
References and Abbreviations for the Works of Descartes
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

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