Name: On Descartes' Passive Thought: The Myth of Cartesian Dualism
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Author: Jean-Luc Marion
ISBN: 9780226192581

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On Descartes' Passive Thought: The Myth of Cartesian Dualism

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean-Luc Marion

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780226192581

Edition No.

Synopsis "On Descartes' Passive Thought: The Myth of Cartesian Dualism "

On Descartes' Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus on Descartes's theory of morals and the passions. Descartes has long been associated with mind-body dualism, but Marion argues here that this is a historical misattribution, popularized by Malebranche and popular ever since both within the academy and with the general public. Actually, Marion shows, Descartes held a holistic conception of body and mind. He called it the meum corpus, a passive mode of thinking, which implies far more than just pure mind--rather, it signifies a mind directly connected to the body: the human being that I am. Understood in this new light, the Descartes Marion uncovers through close readings of works such as Passions of the Soul resists prominent criticisms leveled at him by twentieth-century figures like Husserl and Heidegger, and even anticipates the non-dualistic, phenomenological concepts of human being discussed today. This is a momentous book that no serious historian of philosophy will be able to ignore.

Jean-Luc Marion

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Jean-Luc Marion nació en Meudon (Francia) en 1946. Ha sido profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Poitiers, en Paris X - Nanterre y luego en La Sorbona, en la cátedra de filosofía ocupada anteriormente por Emmanuel Levinas. También ha enseñado en la Universidad de Chicago, donde sucedió a Paul Ricoeur. Entre las distinciones que ha recibido figuran diversos doctorados honoris causa. Desde 2008 es miembro de la Academia francesa. Entre sus numerosas publicaciones cabe destacar en castellano: Prolegómenos a la caridad (1993), El cruce de lo visible (2006), Siendo dado. Ensayo para una fenomenología de la donación (2008), Dios sin el ser (2010), y A decir verdad (2022).

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