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Descartes and the ‘Ingenium’ tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine. The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the Republic of Letters. By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology. Contributors: Igor Agostini, Roger Ariew, Harold J. Cook, Raphaële Garrod, Denis Kambouchner, Alexander Marr, Richard Oosterhoff, David Rabouin, Dennis L. Sepper, and Theo Verbeek.

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Author:   Raphaële Garrod ,  Alexander Marr
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   323
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9789004437616

ISBN 10:   9004437614
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   26 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Diagrams Abbreviations and Note on the Text Notes on Contributors Introduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond Dualism  Raphaële Garrod Part 1: Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus. Method, Mathematics, Medicine 1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at Work  Denis Kambouchner 2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the Ingenium  Roger Ariew 3 Enumeratio in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii and Beyond  Theo Verbeek 4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii  David Rabouin 5 The Post-Regulae Direction of Ingenium in Descartes: Toward a Pragmatic Psychological Anthropology  Denis L. Sepper 6 Augustinian Souls and Epicurean Bodies? Descartes’s Corporeal Mind in Motion  Harold J. Cook Part 2: The Cartesian Ingenium in Context: Predecessors, Contemporaries, Successors 7 Ingenium between Descartes and the Scholastics  Igor Agostini 8 Methods of Ingenuity: The Renaissance Tradition behind Descartes’s Regulae  Richard J. Oosterhoff 9 La Politesse de L’esprit: Cartesian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Scholarly Exchanges  Raphaële Garrod 10 Postface: The Face of Ingenium: Simon Vouet’s Portrait of Descartes  Alexander Marr Bibliography Index of Names

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Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. Cantab (2010), is Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She authored Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose: Dialectic and Discovery (2016), and co-authored Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019). Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. His recent books include Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (forthcoming from Reaktion Books, 2021).

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