Radical Cartesianism
Subtitle: The French Reception of Descartes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521811347
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Philosophy, French; French philosophy; Philosophy; Reference; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Descartes, Renâe,; 1596-1650; Descartes, Rene,
First sentence: The Descartes most familiar to twentieth-century philosophers is the Descartes of the first two Meditations, someone preoccupied with hyperbolic doubt of the material world and the certainty of knowledge of the self that emerges from the famous cogito argument.
Description: "This is the first book-length study of the highly original form of Cartesianism in the work of two of Descartes's French successors, Robert Desgabets (1610-78) and Pierre-Sylvain Regis (1632-1707). The book focuses on radical doctrines in these Cartesians concerning the creation of the eternal truths, the intentionality of ideas, and the soul-body union, three issues that Descartes broached but did not fully explore. In addition to relating their discussion of these issues to the views of Descartes and of Cartesians such as Malebranche and Arnauld, the book establishes that Desgabets and Regis played an important, though neglected, role in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France."

"A major contribution to the history of Cartesianism, this study will be of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy and historians of ideas."--Cover.