But does liberty rest in what amounts to
Cartesianism on crack, a liberty unable to make sense of the body save for its instrumental uses to the inner, autonomous, willing agent?
In sections on territories and diasporas, media and texts, and bodies and rituals they consider such topics as Western Christianity as part of postcolonial world Christianity: the "Body of Christ with AIDS" as an interstitial space, beyond blind faith: religious identities under the conditions of late capitalism, dangerous enthusiasm: an aspect of the clash between
Cartesianism and orthodoxy at Utrecht University, contesting Islam: the making and unmaking of religious faith, and a material history of Catholic precarity in Amsterdam.
3) Reason: supported by the worldviews known as rationalism /
Cartesianism.
In Volatile Bodies, as Grosz suggests, in
Cartesianism, the body is scrutinized in three ways: first, "the body is primarily regarded as an object for the natural sciences" (8); second, the body is seen "in terms of metaphors that construe it as an instrument, a tool, or a machine" (8); third, "the body is commonly considered a signifying medium, a vehicle of expression" (9).
He gave two lectures on Descartes, 'The Cartesian Revolution' and 'The Final Effects of the Cartesian Revolution', showing the extent of his interest in and opposition to
Cartesianism.
After looking at the work of the actor, Gobert extends his fascinating study to the realm of theatrical space, especially the ways in which the new theatres of the period configured the experience of the audience/actor/play relationship in ways entirely under the influence of both Descartes and
Cartesianism.
Wheeler admits to having been influenced by Dreyfus's critique of artificial reason, but not without adding one important caveat: Dreyfus's focus on the problem is wrong because his position is a controversial negative assessment of the empirical achievements of orthodox AI peppered with arguments against
Cartesianism.
Cartesianism is ostensibly associated with the geometry of Descartes.
As Dryden re-imagines Antony and Cleopatra in All for Love, he provides not an Aristotelian riposte to Descartes so much as a "skepticism about
Cartesianism that is divorced from any commitment to Aristotelianism" (133).
Hodgson's basic philosophy of mind aligns with nonreductive dualism in order to escape the mysticism of
Cartesianism and the causal sterility of the mind under forms of physical reductionism (58).
The effect is a revision of what
Cartesianism really means.
The ensuing essays consider how manga and anime--and their implicit spatial/subjective regimes--contribute to a critique of
Cartesianism, particularly its dualism, the strict partitioning of geometric and conceptual space: inside/outside, self/other.
