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Early Modern French Thought

The Age of Suspicion

by Michael Moriarty (, Professor Of French Literature And Thought, Queen Mary, University Of London)

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

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This book is an examination of three major French thinkers of the seventeenth century, Descartes, Pascal, and Malebranche, of whom the latter two are comparatively little studied in the English-speaking world. It deals with a common attitude of suspicion towards everyday experience, which they see as dominated and obscured by sensation, imagination, and the presence of the body. This attitude, however, obliges them to develop detailed and sophisticated accounts of the shaping of experience not only by the body but by interpersonal and social relationships, and of the tension between human nature as it is and as we experience it. The treatment of Descartes thus challenges the interpretation that sees him as eliminating the body from 'subjectivity', while that of Pascal and Malebranche shows how their critical attitude towards experience (a fertile source for twentieth-century French thinkers) is linked with their religious doctrines, especially their Augustinian emphasis on Original Sin.
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Sacred And The ProfaneEarly Modern French Thought

  • Author

    Michael Moriarty (, Professor Of French Literature And Thought, Queen Mary, University Of London)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    July 2003

  • Weight

    468g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199261468

  • ISBN-10

    0199261466

  • Eden Code

    1225563

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