Dotted lines and fountain diagrams in descartes's treatise on man
Laura C. Balladur
03-01-2018
Adding to a body of work that revisits the outdated idea of Cartesian dualism, this close reading of illustrations and the fountain automata in René Descartes’s Treatise on Man shows that whether earl..
Adding to a body of work that revisits the outdated idea of Cartesian dualism, this close reading of illustrations and the fountain automata in René Descartes’s Treatise on Man shows that whether early modern or contemporary metaphors, we still use similar diagrams to describe identity.
