Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature: 5 (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)

Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature: 5 (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)

by Bernadette Höfer (Author)

Synopsis

A monograph that argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical writers.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 01 Oct 2009

ISBN 10: 0754666212
ISBN 13: 9780754666219