Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of French historians of Cartesian philosophy, however, there has been no fully contextualized comparative examination of the various receptions of Descartes in different portions of early modern Europe.

This study addresses the need for a more current understanding of these receptions by considering the different constructions of Descartes's though...