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>From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
Subject: Re: Good books on the Rationalists?
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	Bill Turkel writes:

>Does anybody have any recommendations for books about The Rationalists?
>I am particularly interested in a treatment of modern positions which
>have been influenced by the Rationalist program.  Books on or by particular
>Rationalist thinkers are also OK.


Well, I haven't read this yet but it sounds like what you want (snappy
title too):

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John
Ralston Saul. Saul took a thrashing in the NYT Book Review on August
30 and has a a long letter refuting both the review and the reviewer
in the September 27th issue of the Review. BTW, Saul also writes
novels, anyone ever sampled him?

Three recent recommendations on Descartes' role in all this:

Susan Bordo. _The Flight to Objectivity: essays on Cartesianism and
Culture_.  SUNY Press, 1987.

Dalia Judovitz. _Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: the
Origins of Modernity_. Cambridge Univ Press, 1988.

Hiram Caton. _The Origin of Subjectivity: an Essay on Descartes_. Yale
Univ Press, 1973.

Keith





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