Books (authored and co-authored) by Raphaele Garrod
Chapter 4 (French) of co-authored monograph:
Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaí... more Chapter 4 (French) of co-authored monograph:
Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaída, Logodaedalus. Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming)
Early European Research is a series that explores how the social and intellectual history of pre-... more Early European Research is a series that explores how the social and intellectual history of pre-modern Europe both shapes and challenges contemporary Western society. Its publications consider issues such as: models of individual and collective identity; gender and power structures; conflict, peace and war; social capital and poverty; changing approaches to science and medicine; and ways of treating the environment and alien cultures.
Books (edited and co-edited) by Raphaele Garrod
Descartes and the Ingenium: The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History , 2020
Descartes and the ‘Ingenium’ tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the the ph... more Descartes and the ‘Ingenium’ tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism.
The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine.
The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the
Republic of Letters.
By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally
anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology.
Leiden: Brill, 'Jesuit Studies', Dec 2019
Intersections 58, Leiden Brill, Aug 2018
This volume stems from a conference which took place at Newnham College, Cambridge, in September ... more This volume stems from a conference which took place at Newnham College, Cambridge, in September 2012. Its intended purpose is to make a case for the importance of Plinian natural history, whose contribution is often overlooked by more traditional genealogies of natural history 'as we know it', in the 17th and 18th century. This case is made extensively for French Renaissance literature by Dr Rowan Tomlinson in her book, Inventive inventories (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming). Her enthusiasm for this topic proved contagious and prompted this conference.
Articles by Raphaele Garrod
Bulletin de la Société Internationale des Amis de Montaigne, 2022
Introduction: comprendre la colère de Montaigne Platon dict les melancholiques plus disciplinable... more Introduction: comprendre la colère de Montaigne Platon dict les melancholiques plus disciplinables et excellans : aussi n'en est-il point qui ayent tant de propencion à la folie. Infinis esprits se treuvent ruinez par leur propre force et soupplesse. Quel saut vient de prendre, de sa propre agitation et allegresse, l'un des plus judicieux, ingenieux et plus formés à l'air de cette antique et pure poisie, qu'autre poete Italien aye de long temps esté ? N'a il pas dequoy sçavoir gré à cette sienne vivacité meurtrière ? à cette clarté qui l'a aveuglé ? à cette exacte et tendue apprehension de la raison qui l'a mis sans raison ? à la curieuse et laborieuse queste des sciences qui l'a conduit à la bestise ? à cette rare aptitude aux exercices de l'ame, qui l'a rendu sans exercice et sans ame ? J'eus plus de despit encore que de compassion, de le voir à Ferrare en si piteux estat, survivant à soy-mesmes, mesconnoissant et soy et ses ouvrages, lesquels, sans son sçeu, et toutesfois à sa veue, on a mis en lumiere incorrigez et informes. 2 1 Les recherches prépatoires de ce chapitre ont bénéficié du soutien du projet « Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science » dirigé par Alexander Marr à CRASSH (Cambridge) et financé par le Conseil Européen de la Recherche, septième programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n 0 617391. Je remercie Tim Chesters pour sa critique avisée de la première mouture de cet article.
Montaigne Studies, 2022
Contribution to a special issue of Montaigne Studies dedicated to Montaigne and Science, edited b... more Contribution to a special issue of Montaigne Studies dedicated to Montaigne and Science, edited by Violaine Giacomotto-Charra. Draft.
L'Année Rabelaisienne, 2021
Contribution to a special issue of L' Année Rabelaisienne dedicated to Rabelais et la botanique, ... more Contribution to a special issue of L' Année Rabelaisienne dedicated to Rabelais et la botanique, to be published in 2021. Draft.
JMEMS, 2019
In The Open: Man and Animal, Giorgio Agamben calls for a reinvestigation of "the question of man ... more In The Open: Man and Animal, Giorgio Agamben calls for a reinvestigation of "the question of man and of 'humanism'" which, he says, "must be posed in a new way."2 This reinvestigation is required in order to understand the emergence of State biopolitics, made possible "only because something like an animal life has been separated within man, only because his distance and proximity to the animal have been measured and recognized first of all in the closest and most intimate places."3 He has just explained that these separations and measurements are to be found in the history of the Aristotelian division and categorization of life, which distinguishes between "the animal inside" (a set of blind, unconscious and organic functions, such as breathing, assimilation and excretion) and the "animal outside," involved in a series of relations with its environment.4 Man, the rational animal, crowns these divisions with a further one: "In our culture, man has always been thought of as the articulation and conjunction of a body and a soul, of a living thing and a logos, of a natural (or animal) element and a supernatural or social or divine element. We must … investigate not the metaphysical mystery of conjunction, but rather the practical and political mystery of separation."5 The practical (or ethical) and political function of such dualism is central to a certain strand of Renaissance rationalist political theory; its discursive emergence foreshadows what Agamben as a reader of Foucault defines as the biopolitics of the modern state in the seventeenth century, namely the State's attention to the "animal inside," the life expectancy and health of its population. But what of the politics of the "animal outside" preceding that period? In line with Agamben's program, this essay questions the dualist account of man by focusing on the ways in which a second strand of political thought, stemming from the Renaissance reception of Plutarch, has acknowledged the importance of such animality in political life. At stake here is the notion of animal ingenuity as sollertia-the rapid assessment of and response to the environment, which the early moderns often identified as a form or prudence. One of its most fitting emblems in early modern political discourse is that of the fox established by Machiavelli as a model for the prince, as distinct from that of the lion. This chapter thus sketches the history of the discursive handling of "the animal outside" through the early modern French reception of that precept and its classical precursors.6 In so doing it revisits some of the constitutive divisions identified by Agamben as foundational discursive structures of humanist political theories.
Rivista Storica Italiana, special issue on the History of Emotions
Philological case studies of the definitions and uses of 'affectus' and 'affectio' in the classic... more Philological case studies of the definitions and uses of 'affectus' and 'affectio' in the classical period (Champion), medieval period (Feros Ruys) and early modern period (Garrod for systematic theology and natural philosophy textbooks, Haskell for rhetoric and medicine). Under the direction of Juanita Ruys.
Book Chapters by Raphaele Garrod
Raphaële Garrod and Alexander Marr (eds), Descartes and the Ingenium. The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism, 2020
Introduction to the edited volume Descartes and the Ingenium: The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism.
Raphaële Garrod, with Alexander Marr (eds.) Descartes and the Ingenium–The Embodied Soul in Cartesianism. , 2020
Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Image
Draft chapter for the edited volume Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Ima... more Draft chapter for the edited volume Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Image, ed. Susanna Berger and Dan Garber, Series Archimedes, Springer (forthcoming).
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern French Thought
Joint introduction to the edited volume: Changing Heart: Performing Jesuit Emotions across Europe... more Joint introduction to the edited volume: Changing Heart: Performing Jesuit Emotions across Europe, Asia and the Americas, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod, Jesuit Studies (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions in Europe, Asia and the Americas, ed. by Y. Haskell and R. Garrod
Natural History in Early Modern France: Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, 2018
Introduction to Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, ed. Ra... more Introduction to Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, ed. Raphaele Garrod and P.J. Smith, Intersections 58 (Leiden: Brill, 2018)
Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, Mar 2018
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Books (authored and co-authored) by Raphaele Garrod
Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaída, Logodaedalus. Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming)
Books (edited and co-edited) by Raphaele Garrod
The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine.
The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the
Republic of Letters.
By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally
anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology.
Articles by Raphaele Garrod
Book Chapters by Raphaele Garrod
Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaída, Logodaedalus. Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming)
The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine.
The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the
Republic of Letters.
By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally
anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology.