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<p>What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between Descartes and the myth of the 'modern subject' to post-structuralist assessments.</p> <p>The Matter
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- Author
- Christopher Braider
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442643482
- Category
- spirituality
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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