Flight to Objectivity, The: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture

Flight to Objectivity, The: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
ISBN-10
0791497127
ISBN-13
9780791497128
Category
Philosophy
Pages
145
Language
English
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Susan R. Bordo

Description

The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes’ Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes’ arguments as “timeless,” culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human experience. The study includes textual and cultural material that together comprise a gradually unfolding psychocultural reading of the Meditations. Descartes’ famous doubt, and the ideal of objectivity which conquered that doubt, are considered as philosophical expressions of a cultural “drama of parturition” from the medieval universe, a process that generated new forms of experience, new cultural anxieties, and ultimately, new strategies for control and mastery of an utterly changed and alien world. Themes that figure prominently in recent literature on seventeenth-century philosophy and science—the birth of the mind as “mirror of nature,” and the “masculine” nature of modern science, the “death of nature”—are explored with reference to Descartes as a pivotal figure in the birth of modernity.

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Similar books

  • The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
    The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
    By Susan R. Bordo

    The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes’ Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought.

  • The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
    The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
    By Susan Bordo

    It is in this sense that the dominant scientific and philosophic culture of the seventeenth century indeed inaugurated "a truly masculine birth of time," as Francis Bacon had proclaimed it (Farrington). Similarly and strikingly ...

  • Multi-objective Forest Planning
    Multi-objective Forest Planning
    By Timo Pukkala

    In spatial optimisation, a re-evaluation of the objective function requires an inspection of the neighbouring stands as ... Figure 8 illustrates the effect of locationweighted mean HSI of flying squirrel on the optimisation result in a ...

  • Dynamics
    Dynamics
    By M.D.Raisinghania

    Ift1 and t2 be the times of flight from A to B and the inclination of AB to the horizontal, prove that t12 +2t1t2 sin + t22 is indepenent of . Sol. Draw figures as in Art. 6.8. Take A and B in place of O and Prespectively.

  • Objective English, 4/e
    Objective English, 4/e
    By Edgar Thorpe, Showick Thorpe

    Passage 3 The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued paleontologists for more than ... solved the problems of powered flight, and exactly what these creatures were—reptiles or birds—are among the ...

  • CBSE Chapterwise Objective MCQs Book for Class 10 Term I Exam
    CBSE Chapterwise Objective MCQs Book for Class 10 Term I Exam
    By Gurukul

    (i) Choose the answer that lists the CORRECT option about the inner feel that the seagull had before flying. ... (a) seagull is not eating (b) seagull is not flying (c) seagull is not jumping (d) nseagull is not swimming (iii) What are ...