Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes

Shows that the traditional readings of Descartes are overly reductive, in particular the traditional claims that the Cartesian method is unrelated to fields like rhetoric and history and that the imagination is a passive mental faculty Incorporates readings of Descartes from both the analytic and continental traditions Makes Descartes not simply a historically important thinker, but one much closer to contemporary philosophy

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

Contenu

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