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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12944915.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Theology and History in Seventeenth-Century France: Problems and Perspectives -- 3. Descartes forma futuri -- 4. Pascal's Critique of Experience -- 5. Malebranche: 'What Is Falsely Called Experience'".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-264) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 271 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199261466".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "194 21".
- catalog subject "B1815 .M67 2003".
- catalog subject "Descartes, René, 1596-1650.".
- catalog subject "Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.".
- catalog subject "Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, French 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Theology and History in Seventeenth-Century France: Problems and Perspectives -- 3. Descartes forma futuri -- 4. Pascal's Critique of Experience -- 5. Malebranche: 'What Is Falsely Called Experience'".
- catalog title "Early modern French thought : the age of suspicion / Michael Moriarty.".
- catalog type "text".