Descartes' Treatise on man and its reception. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Stephen Gaukroger, editors.
• Editors: Antoine-Mahut, Delphine, 1972-; Gaukroger, Stephen
• Contents: Chapter 1: The Story of€L'Homme; 1.1 L'Homme Sidelined; 1.2 L'Homme: An€Unfinished Text; 1.3 L'Homme Copied and€Plagiarised; 1.4 L'Homme Corrected; 1.5 The Visible and€the€Invisible in€L'Homme; 1.6 L'Homme Embodied; Part I: Editions and Translations of L'Homme; Chapter 2: The Primacy of€L'Homme in€the€1664 Parisian Edition by Clerselier; Chapter 3: New Indications for€Critical Edition of€L'Homme; 3.1 Text Partitioning; 3.2 A Passage Latin in€the€French Edition; 3.3 An Omission in€the€Latin Text of€Schuyl; Chapter 4: L'Homme in€English; 4.1 The History of€Epistemology. 4.2 The Treatise on€Man and€the€History of€Medicine and€PhysiologyPart II: The Early Reception of L'Homme; Chapter 5: The Early Dutch Reception of€L'Homme; 5.1 Descartes v. Regius ; 5.2 Schuyl and€De Raey; Work Cited; Chapter 6: The Critical Reception of Cartesian Physiology in Tommaso Cornelio's Progymnasmata Physica; 6.1 Descartes' Reception in€Naples and€the€Work of€Tommaso Cornelio; 6.1.1 Traces of€L'Homme Treatise and€the€Critical Reception of€Cartesianism in€Tommaso Cornelio's Progymnasmata physica; 6.2 Concluding Notes. Chapter 11: Anatomy, Mechanism and€Anthropology: Nicolas Steno's Reading of€L'Homme11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Steno's Critique of€Descartes and€Its Early Reception; 11.3 The Man of€Descartes and€the€Man of€the€Anatomists; 11.4 Steno and€La Forge: Two Opposite€Understandings of€the€Clock Analogy; 11.5 Conclusion: Mechanism and€Anatomy as€Polysemic Labellings; Bibliography; Chapter 12: The Art of€Cartesianism: The€Illustrations of€Clerselier's Edition of€Descartes's Traité de l'homme (1664); 12.1 The Background; 12.2 Clerselier's Selection; 12.3 The Illustrations; 12.3.1 Descartes's Figures. Chapter 7: The Reception of€L'Homme Among the€Leuven Physicians: The€Condemnation of€1662 and€the€Origins of€Occasionalism7.1 Introduction: The€Condemnations of€Descartes's Philosophy; 7.2 Gutschoven et Philippi, Two Cartesian Physicians; 7.3 The Compendium omnium præcipuarum actionum automaticarum; Chapter 8: Machine and€Communication of€Corporeal Dispositions in€Descartes and€La Forge: The€Mysterious 'Article 83' of€L'Homme and€La Forge's Comments; 8.1 La Forge's reception; 8.2 Vain attempts of physical explanation; 8.3 Back to Descartes; 8.4 The story of a well-founded mistake. Chapter 9: La Forge on€Memory: From€the€Treatise on€Man to€the€Treatise on€the€Human Mind9.1 Descartes: Material Memory; 9.2 Intellectual Memory; 9.3 Recollection and€Traces; 9.4 La Forge: Memory After the€Treatise on€Man; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Light and€Man: An€Anomaly in€the€Treatise on€Light?; 10.1 The Title and€Its Effects on€Reading; 10.2 Man as€"Spectator"; Man in€General; 10.3 The First Foundations of€the€Anthropology of€the€Treatise on€Light; 10.4 "My Discussion of€Man & ill Be€a€Little Fuller Than€I€Had Intended"; 10.5 The Consequences of€a€Generalization; Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 900; History; Philosophy (General); HISTORY / Civilization; HISTORY / Essays; HISTORY / Reference; HISTORY / Social History; History; Philosophy; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; History of Western philosophy; Science -- History; History of science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319469894; 9783319469898
• Related ISBNs: 9783319469874; 3319469878
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