Introduction: Descartes' Meditative Turn and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises
1.Founding First Philosophies: Descartes' Conversion
2.Method and Meditation: The Cartesian Art of Turning
3.The Discernment of Ideas and the Evidence of the Cogito
4.Cartesian Ceroplastics: Meditating the Mediality of the Mind
5.Adversio, Animadversio, and Attentio: Turning toward God
6."To Gaze with Wonder and Adoration": Contemplatio Dei and Meditative Ascent
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index