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, Previously published in hardcover, 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 Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• 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