Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004458918
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9789042001442
Series Statement:
Value Inquiry Book Series 41
Content:
This book challenges the presupposition among professional philosophers that René Descartes is the Father of Modern Philosophy. It demonstrates by intensive textual analysis of Descartes's Discourse and Meditations that he inaugurated a new type of sophistry rather than a new way of conducting philosophy. Transcendental Sophistry is a synthesis of Renaissance humanism and Christian theology, especially the theology of creation. This striking re-evaluation of the achievement of Descartes opens the history of Western philosophy to radical reinterpretation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- ONE Simulacra -- TWO The Hidden System Revealed -- THREE In Search of the Golden Fleece: Walking Alone and in the Shadows -- FOUR Oh, Yes, I'm the Great Pretender -- FIVE The Epic Begins: Protagoras Redivivus -- SIX From Golden Fleece to Minotaur -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cartesian Nightmare : An Introduction to Transcendental Sophistry Leiden : BRILL, 1997 ISBN 9789042001442
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004458918
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