The Matter of Mind : : Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes / / Christopher Braider.
What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France
- 1. Front Matter: Placing Descartes's Meditations
- 2. A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's The Judgment of Solomon
- 3. The Witch from Colchis: Corneille's Médéé, Chiméne's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius
- 4. Seeing Is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle
- 5. The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics
- 6. Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, 'Sur l'Equivoque'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index