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Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy describes the philosopher’s meditations day by day. Six meditations are completed in just as many days. These are the six days in which Descartes recreated the world in many ways. And on the seventh day — he rested? Certainly the meaning of the crucial breakthrough, for Descartes’s Meditations, is that a new world came to replace the old, existing one.
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Edmund Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology, tr. Les Hardy (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) 42
Jacques Derrida, “Ousia and Grammē: Note on a Note from Being and Time,” in Margins of Philosophy, tr. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982) 29–67
Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, tr. Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992) 1
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Olesen, S.G. (2013). The Heyday of the Subject. In: Transcendental History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277787_5
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