Cartesian Poetics

The Art of Thinking

Cartesian Poetics
Andrea Gadberry
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18 Nov 2020 US
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What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher' s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes' s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having "slashed poetry' s throat" instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought' s frustrations. Gadberry' s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.
"Cartesian Poetics brilliantly integrates historical sensitivity and speculative boldness. Tracing a ' literary life of concepts' through the riddle, the love lyric, the elegy, and the anagram, Gadberry gives us a new history of Descartes' s philosophical coming of age. Her nuanced close readings, which make dazzling use of wit as an engine of literary-critical investigation, awaken us to a conception of poetic form that lives in and between thoughts--that makes ' thinking, ' in the largest sense, possible. "-- "Gerard Passannante, University of Maryland, College Park" "Cartesian Poetics is an original, hard-nosed, gorgeously written, and compelling book. For a book on the aesthetics of thinking, it is suitably beautiful and intelligent. . . . Gadberry' s artful reconstruction and probing of Descartes' s sentences reveal the poetry flowing beneath and within his philosophy. "-- "Jonathan Kramnick, Yale University"
Andrea Gadberry is assistant professor at New York University at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and in the department of comparative literature.
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ISBN-13: 9780226723020
Published: 18 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224

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