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..., il est l’incarnation d’un modèle à abattre pour les philosophes du XVII e siècle. Le présent article propose donc de reprendre la dénonciation du roman espagnol, lancée conjointement par Descartes et Sorel, en montrant leur double perspective critique. La confrontation de leurs méthodes respectives...

... is in fact the condition that all Camus's subsequent literary works, up to and including Le Premier Homme, continue to negotiate. According to Stanley Cavell, skepticism in its modern philosophical form can be traced to Descartes's Meditations (1641). Cavell argues that Descartes's work signals...

... classical physiology, which insisted on the body's organic unity with the soul, in favor of a mechanical model, Descartes effectively sets the stage for the century's contributions to discourse on the senses and the passions. The author returns throughout the study to the link between the new physiology...

... disordering-prepared to perform an absurd, inconsequential act, he does. Now this victory over chance by logic or its personified conjunction Igitur is conceptualized or thought to be possible thanks to an ironic overturning of Descartes' "Cogito" (which Bertrand Marchal and other critics have noted),15 one...

..., Rene Descartes would conceive of wonder as the primary of the six basic passions of man that include love, hatred, desire, joy, and sadness: When the first encounter with some object surprises us, and we judge it to be new, or very different from what we knew in the past or what we supposed...

... donc je suis . Paris : Galilée , 2006 . Descartes René . Discours de la méthode . Edited by Renault Laurent . Paris : Garnier Flammarion , 2000 . Des Chene Dennis . Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2001...

... into anthropology.8 Descartes Beckett and Proust remain aligned, for all their differences, in embedding philosophical questions within narrative: the quest for identity through the Cartesian tradition along with questions of will, determinism, and free choice (issues of Enlightenment over and against...

...” (20.3–6). This citation format (page number[s] followed by line number[s], interceded by a period) is taken from the standard French translation made by the Duc de Luynes of Descartes’s Latin text. 2. The problem of terminology used in the discussion of Emma’s dream life will be addressed later...

..., as the fourth chapter shows: Descartes identifies matter with extension in space and grounds his philosophy in the processes of the mind; Pascal insists on the accidental nature of interpretation; Newton's theories lay the foundation for a purely secular understanding of nature; finally, Locke both reverses...

... Hamlin, professor of English at Washington State and specialist on the English reception of Montaigne, was written for the Oxford series of Very Short Introductions, which claims over 650 titles, very few of which are devoted to French authors. They’ve done Voltaire and Descartes but not (yet) Molière...

... of a century marked by Rene Descartes's privileging of the rational and by an increasingly strict imperative to rein in unruly signs of the flesh. 3 In a court obsessed with appearance and dissimulation, how could involuntary confessions of the flesh possibly contribute to the development of the modern Western...

... tire parti des generations d'apologetes, parmi lesquels Gysbert Voet, qui s'en etait servi, avec retentissement, contre Descartes. En sacrifiant la memoire de ce personnage fondateur et trop reel, Voltaire cherche a saper les bases memes du pouvoir inquisitorial, a insinuer que l'infame se bat contre...

... Pia Donato, « Les doutes de l Inquisiteur. Philosophie naturelle, censure et théologie à l époque moderne », Annales H.S.S., n° 64, 2009, p. 15 43. La censure romaine comme pratique performative 75 En 1661, les uvres philosophiques de René Descartes furent signalées au Saint-O­ ffice par les...

.... Rousseau's invocation of automata also echoes the separation of the modes of the mind from those of the body that Descartes discussed in his Discourse on Method. Descartes assigned numerous functions to the body that had been considered mental properties, for on a physiological level, he could comprehend...

... an enclosed wall or screen. Since Kepler, the camera obscura analogy has traditionally been associated with a theory of vision that defines perception as a mechanized and neutral function. Under the influence of Descartes, the camera obscura model of vision came to imply an abstract, decorporealized observer...

... de la vida natural y legal. (511) £1 abismo radical entre estas dos razones, necesitara-despues de Lutero-el vuelo de la razon ya libre de su envoltura simbolica: es la razon que conocemos conceptualmente como razon moderna. Y, como es sabido, la generacion de Galileo y Descartes seria su mana de...

...Graham Harman Works Cited Descartes René . Discourse on Method and Related Writings , translated by Clarke Desmond M. . London : Penguin , 1999 . Descola Philippe . Beyond Nature and Culture , translated by Lloyd Janet . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

..., and Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, eds. Calvin et l'humanisme: Actes du symposium d'Amiens et Lille III (25-26 novembre 2009). Geneve: Droz, 2012. Braider, Christopher. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: U of Toronto P,2012. Bustos, Rojas Maria. Antologia de la poesia...

... Chapelain's dialogue La Lecture des vieux romans, composed around 1647, dates from the decade during which the intellectual transformations culminating in the Enlightenment started, the 1640s. In 1641, Rene Descartes had introduced in his Meditationes the image of "lumen naturale," as opposed to divine light...

.... Tables of Knowledge. Descartes in Vermeer's Studio. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Sullivan, Karen. Truth and the Heretic. Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Trotter Cockburn, Catharine. Philosophical Writings. Ed...