Through the Eyes of Descartes
eBook - ePub

Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

About this book

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.

Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination.

In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Descartes’s Visceral Aesthetics: The Violence of the Beautiful and the Ugly / Cecilia Sjöholm
  9. 2. Philosophical Emotion: Descartes and the Aesthetics of Thought / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
  10. 3. Descartes’s Performative Cogito / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
  11. 4. Rhythms of Snow: Figures of Differentiation in Descartes’s Meteorology / Cecilia Sjöholm
  12. 5. Thinking through Lines with Descartes / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
  13. 6. The Gaze, Images, and Drives / Cecilia Sjöholm
  14. 7. The Thinking Fetus / Cecilia Sjöholm
  15. 8. The Love between Body and Soul / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Subject Index
  19. Names Index
  20. About the Authors