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The matter of mind : reason and experience in the age of Descartes /

"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Braider, Christopher, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction. Experience and the matter of mind : dualism, classicism, and the myth of the modern subject in seventeenth-century France
  • Front matter : placing Descartes's Meditations
  • A state of mind : embodying the sovereign in Poussin's The judgment of Solomon
  • The witch from Colchis : Corneille's Médée, Chimène's Le Cid, and the invention of classical genius
  • Seeing is believing : image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle
  • The ghost in the machine : reason, faith, and experience in Pascalian apologetics
  • Des mots sans fin : meaning and the end(s) of history in Boileau's Satire XII, 'Sur l'equivoque'.