Christopher Braider

The Matter of Mind (eBook, PDF)

Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

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Produktbeschreibung

Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.

BraiderChristopher:

Christopher Braider is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442696204
• Artikelnr.: 48945221

Autorenporträt

Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and
the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France
1. Front Matter: Placing Descarte’s Meditations
2. A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's Judgment of
Solomon
3. The Witch from Colchis: Coreneille’s Médée, Chimène's Le Cid, and the
Invention of Classical Genius
4. Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle
5. The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian
Apologetics
6. Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's
Satire XII, “Sur l’Equivoque”