Descartes Otherwise. Issue 2 (5th November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hengehold, Laura
• Is Part Of: Comparative and continental philosophy. Volume 6:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 211
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2014-11-05
• Subjects: Descartes -- dualism -- embodiment -- phenomenology -- modernity; Philosophy, Comparative -- Periodicals; Philosophy, European -- Periodicals; Art -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Literature -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1179/1757063814Z.00000000043
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-0638

Abstract

Abstract : Descartes has been associated with a project of establishing the ego's separation from and sovereignty over its material environment, a project often held to be constitutive of modernity as well as its discontents. Kyoo Lee's Reading Descartes Otherwise tries to free our understanding of modernity from this imaginary and reductive reading, which she calls the "Cartesian complex, " by presenting the voice of The Meditations as embodied, phenomenologically astute, and emerging from the interstices of his own repeated dreamlike thought experiments.