Michael Moriarty

Early Modern French Thought

The Age of Suspicion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with three major French thinkers of the seventeenth century, Descartes, Pascal, and Malebranche. It examines their influential critical accounts of the impact of the body and of social relationships on experience, and the need to correct this by reference to metaphysical or religious truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 146mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261468
• ISBN-10: 0199261466
• Artikelnr.: 21587164

Autorenporträt

Michael Moriarty is Head of the School of Modern Languages and Professor of French Literature and Thought at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications include Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (CUP 1988) and Roland Barthes (Polity 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

A note on translations and references
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1: Theology and History in Seventeenth-Century France: Problems and Perspectives
2: Descartes forma futuri
3: Pascal's Critique of Experience
4: Malebranche: 'What is Falsely Called Experience'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index