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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Slavoj Žižek Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject
On Catherine Malabou’s Les nouveaux blessés
and Other Autistic Monsters
Slavoj žižek
If the radical moment of the inauguration of modern philosophy
is the rise of the Cartesian cogito, where...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
....
Canguilhem’s text speaks to three concerns peculiar to postwar
French thought. First is the postwar displacement and re-appreciation
of Descartes’s thought, which Canguilhem treats in this text as the
generally accepted foundation of the place of science and technology
in modernity...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 June 2010
... curbed.
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Tho’ the instance is so particular and singular, that ’tis scarcely worth
our observing, and does not merit that for it alone we should alter
our general maxim.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
What...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 147–168.
Published: 01 June 2004
... ambiguity surrounding Santayana's skepticism
is taken into account. On the one hand, in Scepticism and Animal
Faith he plays the role of the skeptic, doubting more thoroughly
than Descartes every claim to knowledge. On the other hand, at
the same time he announces his discovery of essence, his...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
... is attribut-
ed to Descartes, at least in the eyes of Nietzsche and Heidegger
(whose perspective orients my own here). In response to the insur-
mountable doubt that skepticism cast on Christian revelation and
church doctrine as source and guarantee of truth, Descartes shifted
the foundation of truth...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 June 2012
... passive type of listener. But at the
same time, the aural sovereignty achieved through such “habitu-
ation” remains fi rmly anchored in Descartes’ mind-body dualism.
Cowart, similarly, sees the weakening of the quasi-mystical corre-
spondence between king and state power during Louis...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2000
... for
the movement to transcend.
The thrust of philosophical anthropology becomes clear when
it is juxtaposed to its primary target, transcendental philosophy in
the tradition of Descartes, Kant, and Husserl. Against the fondest
wishes of that tradition to decontextualize inquiry, thereby purging...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., such as envisaged by the enthusiastic amateur
anatomist René Descartes, who was also, so it is said, present that
January morning” (RS, 13). Second, Sebald notes how “grotesque-
ly” out of proportion the dissected hand is compared to the one
closer to us; and further, how anatomically the wrong way round...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of guaranteeing the truth of science: the
new Galilean mathematical science of nature for Descartes, or the
Newtonian paradigm for Kant. Indeed, it was in our subjectivity
that Descartes sought the foundations upon which to construct the
edifi ce of sure—rational—knowledge. Yet this subjectivity has been...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 127–143.
Published: 01 June 2000
... quantitas materiae
anchored in this duplicity that contradicts Descartes' res extensa,
yet continues to correspond to Newton's absolute space. The res
extensa, next to which there can be no empty space because un-
extended space is unthinkable, is to find an analog...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Descartes’s Meditations knows better. The “principal reason for doubt” that tasked it throughout the preceding pages 12 —that it is difficult to distinguish the certainty of the present moment from the equally certain existence felt in the midst of a dream—is resolved only with the text’s final page...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
...
of the dream dreamt by René Descartes on November 10, 1619,
as recounted by Baillet in his Vie de Descartes (1691), on which,
nonetheless, the dream of the Arab clearly draws. (Scholars spec-
ulate that Wordsworth heard a version of Baillet’s account from
Coleridge, or— a little less...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Bersani, Thoughts and Things (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2015). Cited in the text as tt.
Leo Bersani’s Thoughts and Things gathers six essays on topics rang-
ing from desire to “remote stellar dust” and on fi gures ranging from
René Descartes to Claire Denis (tt, 89). Three...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
... experience, the voidal creature would yet be the
subject of a certain dis-ease. And in the strongest sense, for lacking
consciousness of any object outside of himself, he would necessar-
ily himself be this negativity.
In the comparable context of Descartes’ cogito ergo sum, the re-
ality...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 171–196.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., the latter being the determination of identity as liter-
ally in-divisible and durable. But the roots of this go back to
the period of the Reformation and its immediate aftermath.
Descartes, for instance, determines his cogito—and here I
finally come to your question—not as cogito simply...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 111–122.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of
a hetero-affected one?
I borrow the concepts of auto- and hetero-affection from
Derrida, the concept of affects from Deleuze, and the concept of
the emotional brain from Damasio, the famous neurobiologist and
112 qui parle spring/summer 2009 vol.17, no.2
author of Descartes...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 17–54.
Published: 01 June 2000
...
to the fullest extent by Descartes. With Descartes, philosophy is a
systematization of the possible; now what actually is is understand-
able from the point of view of what is possible. Hence the new
meaning of hypothesis, which satisfies the intellectual desire to con-
struct a possible situation...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 June 2000
... in objectifica-
tion, "the calculating, planning and molding of all things
For Heidegger, such a representative view of Being is already
prefigured in Plato, but it is Descartes who completes the meta-
physical system by reducing the realm of Being to what is visible...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Platonic—that is to say, mimetic—determination. At one point in this work, Deleuze explains how one of the fundamental differences between Spinoza and René Descartes is that the latter, unlike the former, “didn’t conceive expression . . . as the basis of representation.” 13 Later, when recapitulating...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 181–210.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of metaphysics,
still so tenaciously present in the image of Descartes approaching
the fi re, denuding the ball of wax of its qualities. . . .
This hits on what, ultimately, I’m contrasting: against the
“saying something” of the Greeks, the “saying in accordance” of
the Taoists...
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