Diderot and Descartes / / Aram Vartanian.
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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1953 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. AN ASPECT OF THE CARTESIAN HERITAGE
- CHAPTER II. FROM DESCARTES'S MONDE TO THE WORLDS OF DIDEROT AND MATERIALIST SCIENCE
- CHAPTER III. SCIENTIFIC METHOD FROM DESCARTES TO THE PHILOSOPHES
- CHAPTER IV. FROM CARTESIAN MECHANISTIC BIOLOGY TO THE MAN-MACHINE AND EVOLUTIONARY MATERIALISM
- CHAPTER V. SUMMATION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX