"Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

By Michael Keefer

After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from…

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