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"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method , "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes , Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

Who reads Through the Eyes of Descartes: Seeing, Thinking, Writing?

Author

Cecilia Sjöholm; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253068255

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, European & American Philosophy, Social_sciences