عنوان

Writing cogito :

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0791435717 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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0791435725 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791435717 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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9780791435724 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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b414766

Title Proper

Writing cogito :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Montaigne, Descartes, and the institution of the modern subject /

First Statement of Responsibility

Hassan Melehy.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany, N.Y. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 210 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series, the margins of literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

Text of Note

Combining literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis, Melehy examines a series of events at the outset of modernity involving both literature and philosophy. Through the work of Michel de Montaigne and Rene Descartes, Melehy considers the question of the foundation of the human subject, in the context of contemporary debates in literature and philosophy. Montaigne, through writing, examines the many possibilities of subjective experience, and finds that the subject takes shape in writing. Descartes comes to the subject in search of a principle to circumvent the uncertainty of language - "I think, therefore I am," the cogito. But Descartes, Melehy shows, must continually depend on literary devices, on the properties of language whose effects he is so eager to escape - also deploying the devices to disguise the fact that they permeate his work.

Descartes, René,1596-1650.

Montaigne, Michel de,1533-1592.

Literature, Modern.

Philosophy, French-- 16th century.

Philosophy, French-- 17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Self (Philosophy)

Subject (Philosophy)

Class number

Book number

Melehy, Hassan,1960-

Date of Transaction

20140218103728.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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