Series: Cycles

This book redirects our attention to a group of thinkers whose project of rethinking difference and alterity assumes new critical significance at the current juncture. Reaching from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the interventions of La Boetie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn are not just history (albeit one problematically assimilated to canonical views), but offer new resources for moving past the...

The Idea of the Instant in Descartes's Philosophy is the first English translation of a major and influential interpretation of Descartes's philosophy by one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century French philosophy. While discussing the role of the instant within Descartes's philosophy, Jean Wahl develops an original account of temporality that is central to Wahl's entire and extensive oeuvre...