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Book SynopsisForceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
Trade Review'All of them [readers] will most likely be impressed with the intellectual range and critical acumen displayed by Braider throughout this highly stimulating study.' -- Edward Ousselin French Studies, vol 66:04:2012 'This book is a thought provoking contribution to early modern French studies.' -- Paul Scott French Review vol 88:02:2014
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France * Front Matter: Placing Descarte's Meditations* A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's Judgment of Solomon* The Witch from Colchis: Coreneille's M dee, Chim ne's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius* Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Moli re's Sganarelle* The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics*Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, "Sur l'Equivoque"
