...Rebecca Wilkin The fetus was able to think and was conscious of doing so, Descartes claimed in his Response to Antoine Arnauld's Objection to the Meditationes de prima philosophia (1641). This essay traces the fortunes of the cogitating fetus in Descartes's published works and correspondence...

...Katherine Rudolph KATHERINE RUDOLPH "This Body of My Dreams": Descartes on the Body of Language Rene Descartes made a famous distinction between sensible and intelligible perception. With that came a revision of the linguistic sign as used by science (scientia) , the sign, for Descartes, being...

...Veit Erlmann Almost four centuries after his death, René Descartes remains one of the most reviled figures in the history of Western thought. Whether as the father of the “modernist visualist paradigm” (Martin Jay) or the main instigator of a “masculinization of thought” (Susan Bordo), intellectual...

..., 1974–1994 . Ed. Elisabeth Weber. Stanford:Stanford UP, 1995 . 255 –87. Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes . Trans. John Cottingham, et al. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991 . Diderot, Denis. Oeuvres complètes . Ed. Jean Varloot, et al...

... books of essays, from a reaction to the division of the human subject between res cogitans and res extensa in Descartes, through a “phenomenology” of the sensuous proximate milieu, to a metaphysical aesthetics (as it were) of the One-All, and along the way recruited some help from Nāgārjuna...

... Black List: African American Literature and the Popular Front , is a study of the writing and visual art of the Black Popular Front. DeCosta-Willis, Miriam. “Avenging Angels and Mute Mothers: Black Southern Women in Wright's Fictional World.” Callaloo 28 ( 1986 ): 540 -51. Descartes, Rene...

... a body paragraph with a declaration: “I will associate Descartes’s modernity with Proust and Freud” (5). This hand plays the game of incongruent counterparts not by trying on ill-fitting gloves or fussing about the difference between left hand and right, but by bringing together parts of the cultural...

... discourse is not neutral, but nevertheless she looks to it as the ultimate source of legitimation. Science is Irigaray's fetish. Why then is science and especially physics privileged in Irigaray's writings? The answer emerges from a consideration of the pivotal role of Descartes in Irigaray's writings...

...-awareness is the precondition for, and therefore more fundamental than, sense perception, and thus without an experience of it, we would be unable to sense anything. His thought experiment is set up to question the status of sense impressions, not of thought, as per Descartes’s experiment. The void in which...

... . Ronell Avital . “ The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity .” 8 . 2 : 1 – 22 . Rudolph Katherine . “ ‘This Body of My Dreams’: Descartes on The Body of Language .” 8 . 3 : 53 – 78 . Savran David . “ The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture...

..., in the human psychic structure, is anterior to all readable accounting for. —“Ardent” 13; “Oedipal” 103; Receptive 71; Thoughts 52 Works Cited Bersani Leo . “ ‘Ardent Masturbation’ (Descartes, Freud, and Others) .” Critical Inquiry 39 ( 2011 ): 1 – 16 . Bersani Leo...

...—Inventions de l'autre . Paris: Galilée, 1987 . ____. “Le retrait de la métaphore.” Psyché 63 -94. ____. “The Retrait of Metaphor.” Trans. F. Gardner et al. Enclitic 2.2 (Fall 1978 ): 3 -33. ____. “White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy.” Margins 207 -72. Descartes, René...

.... Erlmann, Veit. “Descartes’s Resonant Subject.” 22.2/3: 10–30. Kog˘ acıog˘  lu, Dicle. “Knowledge, Practice, and Political Community: The Making of the ‘Custom’ in Turkey.” 22.1: 172–228. Lee, Christopher. “Rhythm and the Cold War...

..., for what reasons. Morris 77J Grosz 212) Instead of reading with propriety some classical texts (this alludes to some analysis of Kant and Descartes, I suppose), I should have disrupted philosophy, philosophy described here as "male." One may point out that my works on Descartes and Kant endeavored to show...

... Antoine . “ De l'autre côté de l'eau .” Reid Hall Centennial Colloquium . Paris , 28 June 1993 . Descartes René . The Philosophical Works of Descartes . Trans. Haldane E.S. and Ross G.R.T. . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1931 . Feinman Paul . Lecture. Reid Hall...

... of philosophy in The Passion: one could trace the critiques of Descartes (on the subject that thinks and establishes a definite truth of the Self and whose power of thought can also doubt, if not negate, other existences), and of Kant...

... to Hegel's Semiology .” Margins of Philosophy . Trans. Bass Alan . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1982 . 69 - 108 . Descartes René . Oeuvres Philosophiques . Vol. 11 . Ed. Adam Charles and Tannery Paul . 11 vols. Paris : Libraire Philosophique , 1964-75 . Eagleton...

... Antonio . Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain . New York : Harper Perennial , 1995 . ———. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain . Orlando : Harcourt , 2003 . Dawkins Richard . The Selfish Gene . 1976 . New York : Oxford UP , 2006...

..., This Body of My Dreams: Descartes and Augustine on the Body of Language: Linguistic Constructivism in Historical Perspective . She has published articles on Augustine and Descartes, as well as on topics in twentieth-century Continental philosophy. She has also written on issues in contemporary art...

... remark stands as an ambiguous retort to Descartes, who, in his claim that speech marks a clear and infallible line of demarcation between humans and animals, warned “nor must we think, as did some of the ancients, that brutes talk...