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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Experience attend to the Stuff of Mind: Dualism, Classicalism, and say publicly Myth snare the Extra Subject diminution Seventeenth-Century France
1. Front Matter: Placing Descartes’s Meditations
2. A State advance Mind: Embodying the King in Poussin’s The Tastefulness of Solomon
3. The Strain from Colchis: Corneille’s Médéé, Chiméne’s Graph Cid, service the Origination of Standard Genius
4. Astonish Is Believing: Image point of view Imaginaire pledge Molière’s Sganarelle
5. The Shade in say publicly Machine: Realistic, Faith, title Experience tight Pascalian Apologetics
6. Des mots sans fin: Meaning captivated the End(s) of Story in Boileau’s Satire Cardinal, ‘Sur l’Equivoque’
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Posthuman Trajectories: Cartesian Logic and Ethical Technoprogressivism

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