Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy

Author/Contributor(s):	Brodsky Lacour, Claudia
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/22/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"An excellent, highly disciplined reading; a truly interdisciplinary achievement. One of the most striking qualities of this book is the way in which Brodsky Lacour opens up broader historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, pertaining particularly to present discussions of Modernity and deconstruction, by strictly pursuing her rigorous reading of Descartes's and Perrault's texts. The basis for such a mediation is the author's excellent literary analyses and her impressive understanding of philosophical and mathematical issues. In thinking through the figures of line and architecture in and as thought and discourse, she unfolds a certain construction of modern subjectivity and contemporary theoretical problems in a highly illuminating way."--Rainer Nagele, The Johns Hopkins University