Descartes’s Grotto Automata: Staging the Baroque Subject after 1650
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Publisher:Stockholm University Press
By: Alison Calhoun
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Introduction
Montaigne avec Žižek: The Inhuman Neighbor in the Self and the Friend
Letting Oneself Go: Reading Montaigne in the Middle Voice
The Ass and the Philosopher: Turmeda and the Talking Animals
The Queen’s Embodiment of Concord in the Shadow of Religious Wars
Civility and Subjectivity: Advice from Philippe Duplessis-Mornay to Henri de Navarre
Another Orientalism: Desiderius Erasmus and Jean Bodin
Planetary Subjectivity in the Theaters of Margaret Cavendish
Know Thyself: Margaret Cavendish on Self-Motion, Self-Knowledge, and Self-Perception
Allegory, Knowledge, and the Spectacular Self in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Who Reigns in the Garden of Creation? Female Authority in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Descartes’s Grotto Automata: Staging the Baroque Subject after 1650
Satirical Subversion of Subjectivation in Cyrano de Bergerac’s The Other World
Rousseau’s Antihumanism: Reading Julie as Negative Anthropology
Subjectivity and Sensibility: On the Concept of Gemüt in Kant’s Aesthetics
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-7635-292-2 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-7635-293-9 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-7635-291-5 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-7635-294-6 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcz
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Copyright owner: Carin Franzén and Nan Gerdes
Publication date: 2026
Language: English
Pages: 328
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