Cartesian Poetics - Andrea Gadberry

Cartesian Poetics

The Art of Thinking

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-72302-0 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations.

Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.

Andrea Gadberry is assistant professor at New York University at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and in the Department of Comparative Literature.

Introduction: Resultless Enterprises
Chapter One: Common-Sense Envy
Chapter Two: Lyric Disposition
Chapter Three: Bitter Satisfactions
Chapter Four: After Thoughts
Epilogue: “A Painful Feeling of Strangeness”
  Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Thinking Literature
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 286 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-226-72302-X / 022672302X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-72302-0 / 9780226723020
Zustand Neuware
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