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Lines of Thought : Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy /

It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. In Lines of Thought, Claudia Brodsky Lacour describes the double origin of modern philosophy in Descartes's Discours de la methode and Geo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brodsky, Claudia, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: What Is Modern?
  • pt. 1. Descartes' "Design" 1. Traite or Discours de la methode. 2. Autobiographical Discourse: "Fable" as "Tableau" 3. The "Discourse" of Thinking: Architectural Design. 4. The Things a Thinking Thing Thinks
  • pt. 2. The Discourse of Method. 5. Letters and Lines: Algebra and Geometry in Descartes' Geometrie. 6. Writing and Intuition
  • pt. 3. Thinking as Line. 7. The Cogito and Architectural Form. 8. Staircase as Labyrinth: Eudoxe on Method. 9. Postscript: Architectural Theory after Descartes
  • Epilogue: The Line between Aesthetic and Knowledge.