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Descartes's Fictions - Reading Philosophy with Poetics (Hardcover)
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Descartes's Fictions - Reading Philosophy with Poetics (Hardcover)
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Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern
philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the
significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical
output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and
debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about
poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's
work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic
theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of
tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the
figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what
Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and
correspondents embedded in the early modern republic of letters,
this volume shows that poetics provides a repository of themes and
images to which he returns repeatedly: fortune, method, error,
providence, passion, and imagination, for instance. Like the poets
and theorists of his age, Descartes is also drawn to the forms of
attention that people may bring to his work. This interest finds
expression in the mature Cartesian metaphysics of the Meditations,
as well as, later, in the moral philosophy of his correspondence
with Elisabeth of Bohemia or the Passions of the Soul. This volume
thus bridges the gap between Cartesian criticism and late-humanist
literary culture in France.
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