Radical Cartesianism
Subtitle: The French Reception of Descartes
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521039161
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophy / Modern; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy
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.