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The Flight to Objectivity - Essays on Cartesianism and Culture

Anglais · Livre de poche

Expédition généralement dans un délai de 3 à 5 semaines

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The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes' arguments as "timeless," culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human experience.
The study includes textual and cultural material that together comprise a gradually unfolding psychocultural reading of the Meditations. Descartes' famous doubt, and the ideal of objectivity which conquered that doubt, are considered as philosophical expressions of a cultural "drama of parturition" from the medieval universe, a process that generated new forms of experience, new cultural anxieties, and ultimately, new strategies for control and mastery of an utterly changed and alien world. Themes that figure prominently in recent literature on seventeenth-century philosophy and science-the birth of the mind as "mirror of nature," and the "masculine" nature of modern science, the "death of nature"-are explored with reference to Descartes as a pivotal figure in the birth of modernity.


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Susan R. Bordo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College.

Détails du produit

Auteurs Susan R Bordo, Susan R. Bordo
Edition Ingram Publishers Services
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 01.07.1987
 
EAN 9780887064111
ISBN 978-0-88706-411-1
Pages 160
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
Poids 218 g
Thèmes SUNY Series in Philosophy
Suny Philosophy
SUNY series, Feminist Philosophy
Catégories Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy

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