{"product_id":"through-the-eyes-of-descartes-cecilia-sjholm-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 Sjöholm and Marcia Sá 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 Sjöholm and Marcia Sá 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cecilia Sjöholm, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253068231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253068231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Cecilia Sjöholm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44717499220223,"sku":"9780253068231","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3c43ae7-77a8-4f21-8d11-298be1662f79.jpg?v=1705688430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/through-the-eyes-of-descartes-cecilia-sjholm-9780253068231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}