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Cartesian Questions III

Descartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism

Jean-Luc Marion Stephen E. Lewis

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English
Stanford University Press
05 August 2025
In this masterful work, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various ""Cartesianisms"" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have constructed. The book's first half shows how Descartes lines up against Cartesianism, setting forth several closely argued attempts to free up the positive status of skepticism in the Cartesian corpus, the non-substantial (and non-reflexive) character of the ego cogito, the complex elaboration of the idea of the infinite, and the role of esteem as a mode of the cogitatio. Marion then offers a second set of studies examining the work of Montaigne, Hobbes, and Spinoza and seeking to reconstitute some of the ways in which Cartesianism (and non-Cartesianism) become opposed to Descartes. Arising at the pivot point between these two paths of inquiry is a chapter dedicated to Descartes and phenomenology, with particular focus on how Descartes can be understood to have practiced—in his own way and by anticipation—a genuine phenomenological reduction. The final volume in Jean-Luc Marion's erudite trilogy of Cartesian Questions, this authoritative book demonstrates that, rather than belonging strictly to the past, Descartes continues to speak to our future.
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Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781503643338
ISBN 10:   1503643336
Series:   Cultural Memory in the Present
Pages:   382
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jean-Luc Marion is a member of the Académie Française. Previous books with Stanford include Revelation Comes From Elsewhere (2024), In the Self's Place (2012), and Being Given (2002).Stephen E. Lewis, Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, has translated numerous books of French philosophy, including eight by Jean-Luc Marion. Stephanie Rumpza is a researcher in philosophy at Sorbonne Université (Paris-IV) and author of Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image (2023).

Reviews for Cartesian Questions III: Descartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism

""In his great work, Jean-Luc Marion peels back the Cartesian masks to reveal an authentic Descartes from beneath the layers of interpretations and commentaries by Cartesians and anti-Cartesians, also discussing those, such as Montaigne and Hobbes, whose work constrained him or set up false expectations for his philosophy. This is a marvelous enterprise which initiates Marion's renewed efforts to read, reread, and rethink the Cartesian corpus from end to end."" --Roger Ariew, Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida ""Once again, Marion unmasks Descartes with charming irreverence, reading him alongside his near contemporaries--Montaigne, Hobbes, and Spinoza--and ours. And once again, he shows us something fresh and new in these texts."" --Daniel Garber, A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor, Princeton University


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