Cartesian artistic rationality

[username65]

I read a literary journal and an excerpt criticizes the moral rationality of the West:

The moral rationality of the West created a Cartesian artistic rationality that severely limited the activity of art and poetry, and for this reason, poetry, which had a very bright peak in post-Renaissance Europe, started to pass into decadence immediately after the French Revolution.

What is the "Cartesian artistic rationality" in this context? Thanks in advance.

 

[5jj]

Please tell us the name of the journal and the title and author of the article.

 

[SoothingDave]

I am no philosopher, and know Descartes from his planes and him walking into a bar in the famous joke.

I imagine the author means something about how the West developed into ways of thinking that were more logical than artistic.

of or pertaining to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, esp. with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.

 

[probus]

I don't know that famous joke. Could you maybe post it in our jokes forum?

 

[username65]

Please tell us the name of the journal and the title and author of the article.

It is a literary journal based on Turkey. Its name is "syllable". The article deals with literature in the context of ideology and religion. The author is Prof. Dr. Baki Asiltürk. (https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/bakiasilturk). The title of the article is "The last sounds of metaphysics and the poem of İhsan Deniz".

 

[SoothingDave]

I don't know that famous joke. Could you maybe post it in our jokes forum?

There's a jokes forum?

 

[5jj]

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/tell-a-funny-joke.239391/

 

[5jj]

I don't know that famous joke. Could you maybe post it in our jokes forum?

He's done it.

 

[jutfrank]

The author is saying that the prevailing rationalism ushered in by Descartes had a limiting effect on artistic activity.