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基本説明
An exploration of early modern French thought, drawing on the philosophical and religious discourse of seventeenth-century France.
Full Description
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.
Contents
A note on translations and references ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Theology and History in Seventeenth-Century France: Problems and Perspectives ; 2. Descartes forma futuri ; 3. Pascal's Critique of Experience ; 4. Malebranche: 'What is Falsely Called Experience' ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
