""I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjèoholm and Marcia Sâa Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjèoholm and Marcia Sâa Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination"--
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Introduction
1. Descartes's Visceral Aesthetics: The Violence of the Beautiful and the Ugly, by Cecilia Sjö holm
2. Philosophical Emotion: Descartes and the Aesthetics of Thought, by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
3. Descartes's Performative Cogito, by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
4. Rhythms of Snow: Figures of Differentiation in Descartes's Meteorology, by Cecilia Sjö holm
5. Thinking through Lines with Descartes, by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
6. The Gaze, Images and Drives, by Cecilia Sjö holm
7. The Thinking Fetus, by Cecilia Sjö holm
8. The Love between Body and Soul, by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Notes
Bibliography
Index
