Autobiographical Discourse and Critical Praxis in Descartes

  • Judovitz D
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Abstract

The relation of philosophical and literary discourse is examined in order to determine how these two discourses are instrumental in the production of the concept of the "subject". This relation is analyzed, First in reference to the epistemological constraints of the "rules" (that equate the subject to certitude, Hence to a mathematical form of philosophical consciousness), And then in reference to the autobiographical use of the "i" in the "discourse". Although descartes' "i" is the touchstone of both his theory of knowledge and his autobiography, It is a subject whose "subjectivity" is defined by impersonality and a lack of historical and critical consciousness. It is the theory of a subject who has no practical knowledge or consciousness of himself.

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Judovitz, D. (1981). Autobiographical Discourse and Critical Praxis in Descartes. Philosophy and Literature, 5(1), 91–107. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1981.0029

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