{"product_id":"descartess-fictions-reading-philosophy-with-poetics-hardcover","title":"Descartes's Fictions: Reading Philosophy with Poetics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmma Gilby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescartes's Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and correspondents embedded in the early modern republic of letters, this volume shows that poetics provides a repository of themes and images to which he returns repeatedly: fortune, method, error, providence, passion, and imagination, for instance. Like the poets and theorists of his age, Descartes is\u003cbr\u003ealso drawn to the forms of attention that people may bring to his work. This interest finds expression in the mature Cartesian metaphysics of the \u003cem\u003eMeditations\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as, later, in the moral philosophy of his correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia or the \u003cem\u003ePassions of the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e. This volume thus bridges the gap between Cartesian criticism and late-humanist literary culture in France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Gilby, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmma Gilby took up her current post at the University of Cambridge after a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College. Her first monograph, published in 2006, was on the concept of the sublime in seventeenth-century France. This work was recognized in 2007 with the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Since then she has been the Crausaz-Wordsworth Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge, and the Scaliger Fellow at the University of Leiden. These research opportunities have allowed her to pursue her interest in scholarship that spans the disciplines of philosophy, literary criticism, and intellectual history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753978495264,"sku":"9780198831891","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a9572bae9a65a7c058902625ce9a5744.webp?v=1780030785","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/descartess-fictions-reading-philosophy-with-poetics-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}