{"product_id":"through-the-eyes-of-descartes-seeing-thinking-writing-9780253068231","title":"Through the Eyes of Descartes: Seeing, Thinking, Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I shall here present my life,\" writes Descartes in \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Method\u003c\/i\u003e, \"as in a painting\" and my method \"as a fable.\" \u003ci\u003eThrough the Eyes of Descartes \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Sj?holm and Marcia S? Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThrough the Eyes of Descartes\u003c\/i\u003e, Cecilia Sj?holm and Marcia S? Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecilia Sjöholm is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eDoing Aesthetics with Arendt: How to See Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKristeva and the Political\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire\u003c\/i\u003e. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eTime in Exile: In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Clarice Lispector\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe End of the World \u003c\/i\u003e(editor with Susanna Lindberg);\u003ci\u003e Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (editor with Tora Lane); and \u003ci\u003eThe Fascism of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488023744786,"sku":"9780253068231","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78c36edf-6524-4950-a78b-2b8b7d48d230.jpg?v=1730463757","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/through-the-eyes-of-descartes-seeing-thinking-writing-9780253068231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}