Description

Once again, perhaps for the last time, I will delve into one of the knots of Western philosophy: Cartesian dualism. This knot continues to tighten many of our ways of doing, thinking, and seeing… But I will approach it from a different angle: the epistolary relationship between René Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia, which reached its zenith in the five letters they exchanged between May and July 1643. A great reader of his treatises, Elisabeth, the "Philosopher Princess," insisted on asking him how the soul moves the body and the body moves the soul if one is immaterial—inextensive—and the other is material—extensive. Cornered by the persistence of these questions about movement and feeling, Descartes recognized in the soul an extension that opened a breach in the construction of his own philosophy.

This new translation presents the fruitful paradoxes of a co-extending immateriality that emerge from the epistolary relationship, and a current and situated reading of the uppercut to dualism launched in those letters; the fissures where something of dualism escapes, opening the way to a corpus of dancing and thinking experiences that do not turn the body into an object , but rather demand thinking about a materialism in co-extension and a thinking with movement . It aims to give consistency to gestures, gravitational and haptic relationships, voices, images, cries, and concepts that dismantle Cartesian dualism, as so many possible levers for our situated investigations, our transformed corporealities and relationships, and our current rings.

Authors
Elisabeth of Bohemia
René Descartes
Marie Bardet

Technical specifications
Edited by: Cactus
Year: 2018
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 15 x 11 cm
Weight: 100 gr
Spanish
Pages: 80
ISBN: 978-987-3831-28-7