Descartes and the Ingenium

The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43761-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 323, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Descartes and the ‘Ingenium’ tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine. The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the Republic of Letters. By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology.

Contributors: Igor Agostini, Roger Ariew, Harold J. Cook, Raphaële Garrod, Denis Kambouchner, Alexander Marr, Richard Oosterhoff, David Rabouin, Dennis L. Sepper, and Theo Verbeek.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrod, Raphaële

Marr, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Diagrams

Abbreviations and Note on the Text

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond Dualism

Raphaële Garrod

Part 1: Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus. Method, Mathematics, Medicine

1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at Work

Denis Kambouchner

2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the Ingenium

Roger Ariew

3 Enumeratio in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii and Beyond

Theo Verbeek

4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii

David Rabouin

5 The Post-Regulae Direction of Ingenium in Descartes: Toward a Pragmatic Psychological Anthropology

Denis L. Sepper

6 Augustinian Souls and Epicurean Bodies? Descartes’s Corporeal Mind in Motion

Harold J. Cook

Part 2: The Cartesian Ingenium in Context: Predecessors, Contemporaries, Successors

7 Ingenium between Descartes and the Scholastics

Igor Agostini

8 Methods of Ingenuity: The Renaissance Tradition behind Descartes’s Regulae

Richard J. Oosterhoff

9 La Politesse de L’esprit: Cartesian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Scholarly Exchanges

Raphaële Garrod

10 Postface: The Face of Ingenium: Simon Vouet’s Portrait of Descartes

Alexander Marr

Bibliography

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. Cantab (2010), is Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She authored Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose: Dialectic and Discovery (2016), and co-authored Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019).

Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. His recent books include Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (forthcoming from Reaktion Books, 2021).