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Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad
ISBN: 9780823261260
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; Philosophy;

Focusing on the first four images of the other that mobilize René Descartes' Meditations, viz., the blind, the mad, the dreamy and the bad, Reading Descartes Otherwise spotlights the phenomenological shadows of "Cartesian rationality," dynamic signs of spectral alterity lodged at the core and the edge of modern Cartesian subjectivity.

Kyoo Lee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She also teaches comparative literature and feminist theory at the Graduate Center, CUNY.