Dotted lines and fountain diagrams in descartes's treatise on man

Publication Title

Mosaic

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

French

Publication Date

3-2018

Abstract

Adding to a body of work that revisits the outdated idea of Cartesian dualism, this close reading of illustrations and the fountain automata in René Descartes’s Treatise on Man shows that whether early modern or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.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2018.0007

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