Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking Gadberry Andrea
Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking Gadberry Andrea What is thinking? What is it good for? What does it feel like? Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was crucially enabled by poetry and…
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Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking Gadberry Andrea
What is thinking? What is it good for? What does it feel like?
Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Ren Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having "slashed poetry's throat" instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought's frustrations.Gadberry's approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first.
Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method
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