Cartesian poetics : the art of thinking /

The philosopher René Descartes is usually associated with cold reason rather than with feeling, to the extent that Rousseau charged his philosophy had "slashed poetry's throat." Andrea Gadberry argues, on the contrary, that Descartes' thought was crucially enabled by early modern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gadberry, Andrea (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Series:Thinking literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Resultless Enterprises
  • Common-Sense Envy
  • Lyric Disposition
  • Bitter Satisfactions
  • After Thoughts
  • Epilogue: "A Painful Feeling of Strangeness."