The genius of crooked thinking. Rene Descartes and French literature of the Great Century.
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Philosopher René Descartes, the author of the famous "Discourse on the Method," is commonly portrayed as a knight of pure reason and a noted rationalist. However, as Sergey Fokin shows in this book, the famed directness of Descartes' thought is impossible without a peculiar "dark side" — a certain "crooked thinking," dictated both by the harsh conditions of the time, when free thinking was punished with severe penalties, and by the literary laws of the era. By embedding the philosopher's work within the political, cultural, social, religious, and biographical contexts of the 17th century, the author demonstrates the complex trajectories that he had to follow in his vocation — the search for truth. One of the main tasks of the book is to trace those lines of Descartes' thought that, rising from the tenets of Baroque and Classicism, preciousness and gallantry, libertinism and salon culture, are refracted in the latest intellectual practices — from psychoanalysis and deconstruction to historical or economic anthropology and the philosophy of translation. Sergey Fokin is a Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Romance-Germanic Philology and Translation at SPbGEU.
Author:
Author:Fokin Sergey Leonidovich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Modern Literature
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22x15x1.8 cm
Series:
Series:History of Science
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1964-7
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