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  title info:
    title: Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
  name:
    name part: Griffith, James
    name part: (Assistant Professor)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 213 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes's use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes's philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable structure or logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis and inexact sciences, between metaphysics and ethico-political life and between the imagination, the will and the passions.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction : References -- 2. Fable in The World and the Discourse : Fable and poetry -- Fable and pedagogy -- References -- 3. Fable-structure or -logic : Fable and other forms -- Fable and deception -- References -- 4. Method : Simplicity and complexity -- Error and inexact science -- Histoire, rule-obedience, and rule-generation -- References -- 5. Imagination : Pedagogy and imagination -- Space and fable -- Will, wonder, and imagination -- References -- 6. Conclusion -- Index.
  note: James Griffith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Descartes, René
      name part: 1596-1650
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Fables, French
  subject:
    topic: Imagination (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, French
    temporal: 17th century
  identifier: 3319702378
  identifier: 9783319702377
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171016
    record change date: 20180718085811.0
    record identifier: in00004015762