Cartesian Questions III – Descartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism Marion

Cartesian Questions IIIDescartes Beneath the Mask of Cartesianism\nAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503632851, 978-1503632851\nSynopsis\nIn 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 Cart.