Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-88908-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes’ use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes’ philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffith, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Fable in The World and the Discourse.- 3. Fable-structure or -logic.- 4. Method.- 5. Imagination.- 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

James Griffith is Assistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy at Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Slovakia