Reading Descartes OtherwiseFocusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes Meditationsnamely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the badReading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of Cartesian rationality. In doing so, it discovers dynamic signs of spectral alterity lodged both at the core and on the edges of modern Cartesian subjectivity. Calling for a Copernican reorientation of the very notion