On Descartes' Passive Thought: The Myth of Cartesian Dualism

di Jean-Luc Marion (Autore)

Christina M. Gschwandtner (Traduttore)

The University of Chicago Press, 2018

On Descartes' Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus on Descartes's theory of morals and the passions. Descartes has long been associated with mind-body dualism, but Marion argues here that this is a historical misattribution, popularized by Malebranche and popular ever since both within the academy and with the general public. Actually, Marion shows, Descartes held a holistic conception of body and mind. He called it the meum corpus, a passive mode of thinking, which implies far more than just pure mind-rather, it signifies a mind directly connected to the body: the human being that I am. Understood in this new light, the Descartes Marion uncovers through close readings of works such as Passions of the Soul resists prominent criticisms leveled at him by twentieth-century figures like Husserl and Heidegger, and even anticipates the non-dualistic, phenomenological concepts of human being discussed today. This is a momentous book that no serious historian of philosophy will be able to ignore.

• Autore: Jean-Luc Marion
• Traduttore: Christina M. Gschwandtner
• Editore: The University of Chicago Press
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 23 x 16 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9780226192581

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