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...swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot feet, depositing flat-topped, right-angled glass-and-steel boxes everywhere. In with the Cartesian was the general rule. Out with the organic. In with knife-edged perpendiculars. Out with just about everything else...
...their spiritual development. When the University lost faith in any agreed principles, it could not justify compelling students to adhere to any fixed ethics. In the name of science, any promulgation of a certain ethic labored under the stigma of what Isaiah Berlin called “the Cartesian condemnation,” attempting to justify all its findings scientifically and severely unable...
...audience, so that the entire evening is in the mode of questioning,” says Curtis, who is also the administrator of Maxwell’s production company, Mon Oncle D’Amerique Productions. He cites Maxwell’s 1997 production La Cartésienne, or Cartesian Women, which is based on the correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and philosopher René Descartes, as an example of the correlation between her dance and philosophy...
She’d point out that this question participates in a Cartesian mind game, a standpoint arising from male privilege that views everything as being made out of ideas, out of abstractions. It’s the same standpoint that believes women shouldn’t vote and that lambs don’t have feelings or ribs—just racks for someone else to gnaw...
...Cartesian Plan...