Return of the Osprey by David Gessner
A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel Henry, Evert van Leeuwen, Jean-Luc Marion, Genevi ve Rodis-Lewis, and Jean-Pierre S ris. Combining new textual sensitivity with attentiveness to history, they represent the best established scholars and most exciting new voices, including both English speaking and newly-translated writers. Part I examines the foundations of Descartes's philosophy: Cartesian certainty; the phenomenology of the cogito and its modulations in the passions; and the defensibility and comprehensibility of the Cartesian God. The second part examines Descartes's groundbreaking metaphysics: mind's distinctness from and interaction with body; imagination; perception; and language. Part I examines Cartesian science: the revolutionary rhetoric of the Rules and the Discourse; the metaphysical foundations of physics; the interplay of rationalism and empiricism; the mechanics and human biology that flow from Descartes's physics.David Gessner is the author of a number of novels, the most recent of which is Sick of Nature. The Boston Globe named his book Return of the Osprey one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year. Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the editor of Ecotone, a literary journal. He and his wife and children live in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345450166 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345450167 |
| Title | Return of the Osprey |
| Author | David Gessner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Year published | 2002-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 306 |
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