Feeling Embodied: The Cartesian Passions in Early Modern English Philosophy

This thesis investigates the early reception in England of René Descartes’ Les passions de l’âme (1649). It argues through a series of engagements with early modern philosophers influenced by this text that Cartesian subject is an embodied one, that is, a human being whose mind and body are intimately united, and whose emotions play an important role in its betterment and wellbeing.