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Christopher Braider - The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes - 9781442643482 - V9781442643482
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The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

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Description for The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes hardcover. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HPCD1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.

What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between Descartes and the myth of the ‘modern subject’ to post-structuralist assessments.

The Matter of Mind presents studies drawn from a range of disciplines and examines the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the drama of Pierre Corneille, and the theology of Blaise Pascal. Braider argues that if early modern thought ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442643482
SKU
V9781442643482
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21

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

Reviews for The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
‘All of them [readers] will most likely be impressed with the intellectual range and critical acumen displayed by Braider throughout this highly stimulating study.’
Edward Ousselin
French Studies, vol 66:04:2012
‘This book is a thought provoking contribution to early modern French studies.’
Paul Scott
French Review vol 88:02:2014

Goodreads reviews for The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes


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