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Descartes' Devil

Descartes' Devil
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Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 1935830295
ISBN-13 : 9781935830290
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Book Synopsis Descartes' Devil by : Durs Grünbein

Download or read book Descartes' Devil written by Durs Grünbein and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three beautifully wrought meditations on the import of Ren Descartes' legacy from a poet's perspective, Durs Grnbein presents us with a Descartes whom we haven't met before: not the notorious perpetrator of the mind-body-dualism, the arch-villain of Rationalism but the inspired and courageous dreamer, explorer, and fabulist. Reading Descartes against the grain of the widely accepted view of the philosopher as the proponent of a cut-and-dried, disembodied, and, hence, misguided view of humanity, Grnbein discloses the profoundly humane and poetic underpinnings of the legacy of this "modern man par excellence," and, by extension, of modernity as a whole. Uncovering the poetic foundations of Descartes' rationalism and, concomitantly, the poetic lining of the mantle of reason, Durs Grnbein, one of the world's greatest living poets and essayists, shows us that reason is never more alive than when it is most poetic.


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