Reading Descartes Otherwise : : Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad / / Kyoo Lee.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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