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The Matter of Mind : Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes /
The Matter of Mind presents studies drawn from a range of disciplines and examines the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the drama of Pierre Corneille, and the theology of Blaise Pascal. Braider argues that if early modern thought converged on a single model, then it was the experimental picture based o...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Medee, Chimene's Le Cid, and the invention of classical genius
- Seeing is believing : image and Imaginaire in Moliere'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'.