The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture

Seattle, WA: State University of New York Press (1987)
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The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought.

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0887064108   0887064116   9780887064104

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10.1515/9780791497128

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Introduction.  (pages 1-12)
One The Pervasiveness of Cartesian Anxiety; or, Taking Cartesian Doubt Seriously.  (pages 13-32)
Two The Epistemological Insecurity of the Cartesian Era.  (pages 33-44)
Three The Emergence of Inwardness.  (pages 45-58)
Four Individuation and Locatedness: A Cultural Drama of Parturition.  (pages 59-74)
Five Purification and Transcendence in Descartes's Meditations.  (pages 75-96)
Six The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight From the Feminine.  (pages 97-118)
Bibliography.  (pages 133-140)
Index.  (pages 141-146)

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