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Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad

By (author) Kyoo Lee

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Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartesâ€™ Meditationsâ€”namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the badâ€”Reading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of â€œCartesian rationality.â€ In doing so, it discovers dynamic signs of spectral alterity lodged both at the core and on the edges of modern Cartesian subjectivity. Calling for a Copernican reorientation of the very notion â€œCartesianism,â€ the bookâ€™s series of close, creatively critical readings of Descartesâ€™ signature images brings the dramatic forces, moments, and scenes of the cogito into our own contemporary moment. The author patiently unravels the knotted skeins of ambiguity that have been spun within philosophical modernity out of such clichÃ©s as â€œDescartes, the abstract modern subjectâ€ and â€œDescartes, the father of modern philosophyâ€â€”a figure who is at once everywhere and nowhere. In the process, she revitalizes and reframes the legacy of Cartesian modernity, in a way more mindful of its proto-phenomenological traces.

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