Introduction. Experience and the Matter of Mind: Dualism, Classicism, and the Myth of the Modern Subject in Seventeenth-Century France

Front Matter: Placing Descarte’s Meditations

A State of Mind: Embodying the Sovereign in Poussin's Judgment of Solomon

The Witch from Colchis: Coreneille’s MédÉe, Chimène's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius

Seeing is Believing: Image and Imaginaire in Molière's Sganarelle

The Ghost in the Machine: Reason, Faith, and Experience in Pascalian Apologetics

Des mots sans fin: Meaning and the End(s) of History in Boileau's Satire XII, “Sur l’Equivoque”

About the Author

Christopher Braider is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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‘All of them [readers] will most likely be impressed with the intellectual range and critical acumen displayed by Braider throughout this highly stimulating study.’ - Edward Ousselin (French Studies, vol 66:04:2012) ‘This book is a thought provoking contribution to early modern French studies.’ - Paul Scott (French Review vol 88:02:2014)

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