Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle
Subtitle: acteurs et réseaux du savoir
By: sous la direction de Luc Foisneau ; avec la collaboration d'Élisabeth Dutartre-Michaut et de Christian Bachelier ; traductions de Delphine Bellis, Luc Foisneau et Claire Gallien
Series: Dictionnaires et synthèses -- 3; Dictionnaires et synthèses -- 3.
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 2138
ISBN-13: 9782812417221
Subjects: Philosophers; Dictionaries; French Philosophy
Work titles: Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers. French
Description: The seventeenth-century French philosopher was not a marginal figure: he was an active agent who existed at the heart of the multiplicity of knowledge networks which have fundamentally shaped our understanding of the modern human condition. By turn mathematician, theologian, doctor, lawyer, alchemist, poet, geographer, historian, and physician, the figure of the philosopher was protean. Even those works and lives which seem the least significant can reveal - and this is the book's hypothesis - unexpected connections between currents of thought, methods, and institutions. Eight thematic introductions, 690 entries, and a historical and well-reasoned index make up this Dictionary. 167 specialists have contributed to it, creating an essential tool for the new exploration of the seventeenth-century philosophical landscape.
Notes: The majority of entries were translated from French into English and then published in the Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers in 2008. All entries have been revised and brought up to date for this French edition.