Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Lines of Thought

Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. This work examines the roles of discourse and writing in Cartesian method and intuition, and the significance of graphic architectonic form in the genealogy of modern philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317777
• ISBN-10: 082231777X
• Artikelnr.: 20998942

Autorenporträt

Claudia Brodsky Lacour is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments viii
Notes on the Text ix
Preface: What Is ModerN? 1
Part 1. Descartes' "Design"
1. Triaté or Discours de la méethode 11
2. Autobiographical Discourse: "Fable" as "Tableau" 18
3. The "Discourse" of Thinking: Architectural Design 32
4. The Things a Thinking Thing Thinks 38
Part 2. The Discourse of Method
5. Letters and Lines: Algebra and Geometry in Descartes' Géométrie 49
6. Writing and Intuition 68
Part 3. Thinking As Line
7. The Cogito and Architectural Form 87
8. Staircase as Labyrinth: Eudoxe on Method 111
9. Postscript: Architectural Theory after Descartes 117
Epilogue: The Line between Aesthetics and Knowledge 141
Bibliography 151
Index 161