Diderot and Descartes

by Aram Vartanian

Overview

A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D'Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of Descartes on the Enlightenment.

Originally published in 1953.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691653235
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #2170
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• PREFACE, pg. v
• CONTENTS, pg. vii
• CHAPTER I. AN ASPECT OF THE CARTESIAN HERITAGE, pg. 1
• CHAPTER II. FROM DESCARTES'S MONDE TO THE WORLDS OF DIDEROT AND MATERIALIST SCIENCE, pg. 47
• CHAPTER III. SCIENTIFIC METHOD FROM DESCARTES TO THE PHILOSOPHES, pg. 135
• CHAPTER IV. FROM CARTESIAN MECHANISTIC BIOLOGY TO THE MAN-MACHINE AND EVOLUTIONARY MATERIALISM, pg. 203
• CHAPTER V. SUMMATION, pg. 291
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 323
• INDEX, pg. 333