Descartes and the Ingenium: The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism
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University of Oxford
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- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - 26A - Modern Languages
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- 12305
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- Brill
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- 978-90-04-43761-6
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
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0
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- This volume describes the Cartesian project as an ‘art of thinking’ and locates it within European cultures of ingenuity. Garrod’s research on Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii for the ERC project ‘Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe’ highlighted the importance of ingenuity as embodied cognition in the Cartesian project, and nuanced Cartesian dualism. She explored this further by organising a conference on the topic in 2015. Ingenuity as embodied cognition underpins the revisionist intellectual history central to this volume, which stemmed from the conference. Garrod researched Descartes’s Treatise on Man and his Latin correspondence in order to write the Introduction, which outlines the volume’s revisionist programme, and one chapter on Cartesian pedagogy and the ethics of scholarly exchanges—those contributions amount to about 20% of the volume. Garrod also edited all the contributions.
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