Descartes and the Ingenium - The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism

A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of René Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.

About the author

Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. Cantab (2010), is Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She authored Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose: Dialectic and Discovery (2016), and co-authored Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019).

Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. His recent books include Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (forthcoming from Reaktion Books, 2021).

Product details

• Assisted by: Raphaële Garrod (Editor), Alexander Marr (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004437616
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43761-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 551 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works