Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad

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215 i n d e x Act of Uniformity, 96–97, 98, 101 Adorno, Theodore, 171 Age of Reason, 96, 97 Alice in Wonderland, 135–36 Aliquié, Ferdinand, 172 alterity: figures of, 34, 36; infinite, 179; odyssey of, 29, 36; and subjectivity, 12, 21; and truth, 69 Arendt, Hannah, 25 Arnauld, Antoine, 152, 155–57, 162–63 Ashbery, John, 24 Augustine, Saint, 96 Badiou, Alain, 29, 42, 78 badness and Cartesian idealism, 10, 34. See also evil genius Baillet, Adrien, 3, 120 Barnes, Julian, 149 Barthes, Roland, 164 Beeckman, Isaac, 14, 120 Being: and dreaming, 117; God as, 123, 141, 145; and meditations, 94; and photography, 69; self-evidence of, 68 Benjamin, Walter, 75 Blanchot, Maurice: The Infinite Conversation, 178 blindness: and Cartesian idealism, 10, 34, 47–48, 81–82; epistemological, 47; and perception, 73; and vision, 56, 67–68, 69–71. See also vision Bloch, Ernst, 117 Book of Common Prayer, 97 Bordo, Susan, 8–9; The Flight to Objectivity, 12, 127 Bourdin, Pierre, 4–5, 131; “Seventh Set of Objections and Replies” (in Philosophical Writings), 4, 131 Broughton, Janet, 112 Bruns, Gerald, 146 Butler, Judith, 29 Canguilhem, Georges, 86 Carraud, Vincent, 114–15 Carriero, John, 6–7, 106, 111 Carroll, Lewis, 136 Cartesianism: angelism of, 28; anti-, 10–11; on human body, 52–57; idealism in, 10; image of, 119; largeness-smallness in, 43–45; modernity of, 10–11, 23; mythos vs. logos, 119, 123; second-generation, 10; transitional quality of, 12. See also specific topics, e.g. ego, Cartesian; subjectivity Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 76 Chanut, Pierre, 18 Classical Age, 96, 98, 100 Clément, Catherine, 125 cogito, sum, 15–18; and consciousness, 16–17; crafting of, 15–16; and creation/invention, 174–80; and doubt, 100, 154; ego of, 8, 21–22, 33, 91, 92–95, 112; elasticity of, 16, 91–92, 109, 173; and evil genius, 158–60; and 216 Index cogito, sum (cont.) feeling of self, 71–72; as foundational, 18; gaze of, 69, 158; God in, 161–62; and infinity, 66, 105; and madness, 91, 92–93, 102–3, 106–7, 109; and masking, 3; and photography, 66–69, 76–77; rethinking, 23; subjectivity of, 42; tacit, 71–72, 73; temporality of, 3–4, 18, 42; theatrical metaphor and, 161–62; as truth, 37; and vision, 51, 71, 82 Cohen, Gustave, 120 compelle intrare, 96–100, 103 conceptual personae, 21–24, 28, 40, 161, 170–73 confused thoughts, 18–19 Copleston, Frederick, 39 death, 128 Deleuze, Gilles, 21–22, 27, 31, 111 delirium, 100–102, 114. See also madness Derrida, Jacques, 42, 72, 74, 78, 84–88, 90–91, 105, 119, 126; Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 86 Descartes, René: biographer of, 3; and Bourdin, 4–5, 131; Catholic response to, 38; characteristics of, 2; childlike side of, 40–41; critique of, 14–15; as dreamer, 118–22, 133–34; as foundational figure, 17–18, 42, 153; skepticism of, 8, 29, 32–33, 34, 84, 92, 138, 178; as stranger to self, 26. See also Cartesianism; specific topics Descartes, René (works): The Search for Truth, 142; Compendium Musicae, 120; Discourse on Method, 16, 24–25, 37, 47, 146; A Letter to Marquess of Newcastle, 137; Meditations on First Philosophy, 4, 6–13, 19, 20, 23, 28, 31–37, 47, 50, 57, 58–59, 77, 81, 84, 104, 109–13, 129–30, 132–33, 137–38, 152–53, 156–57, 159, 162–63, 165–66; Olympia (notebook), 120; Optics, 47–48, 54, 59, 63, 64, 66, 78, 81; Passions of the Soul, 16, 18–20, 66, 81, 179; Preambula (of notebook), 2–3; Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii, 94; “Seventh Set of Objections and Replies” (in Philosophical Writings), 4, 131; “Sixth Set of Objections” (in Philosophical Writings), 49; Treatise on Light, 47 Dilthey, Wilhelm: The Dream, 173 doubt: Cartesian, 8, 73, 99, 146; and cogito, 100, 154; as evil genius, 158; and madness, 74; in Meditations, 8–9, 30; and reason, 99; self-, 30, 76, 151, 178–79; of subjectivity, 42 dreaming: from above, 140–41; and Cartesian idealism, 10, 34, 118, 141–42; daydreaming, 136; distrust of, 125; by God, 128–29; and madness, 126–27; Olympian dream, 122–23, 141; and reason, 123, 130, 134; Somnos/ Thanatos in, 117; threefold dream of Descartes, 28, 116–23, 141; as truth, 127; use of term, 116–17; utopian, 130. See also falling asleep; sleepwalking; somnambulism Dussel, Enrique, 94–95, 97 ego, Cartesian, 1; and authorial I, 176–77; of cogito, 8, 21–22, 33...