The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715. Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy.

Lediglich der Schutzumschlag am Buchr�cken lichtbedingt ausgeblichen, sonst sehr gut und sauber / only the dust jacket is faded at the spine due to light, otherwise very good and clean. - Contents Preface Note on Documentation I. The Philosophical Terrain 1 The Gassendist Failure 2 The Gassendist Success 3 The Interminable Battle 4 Other Wars II. The Giants of the Seventeenth Century 5 Dramatis Personae 6 Mind versus Flesh 7 Gassendist Theories of Space: Apotheosis and Annihilation 8 Physical and Metaphysical Atomism III. Locke: Gassendist Anti-Cartesian 9 Locke and Gassendi 10 Locke and Descartes 11 Enthusiasm IV. The Gods of the Seventeenth Century 12 Descartes�s Idealism 13 Malebranche�s Realism 14 Malebranche's Idealism V. Ideas and Representation 15 Two Patterns of Ideas 16 Arguments for Representationalism 17 Two Versions of the Causal Argument VI. The Untouchable and the Uncuttable 18 Space and Solidity 19 Simple and Complex Ideas 20 Primary and Secondary Qualities 21 Powers 22 Matter and Creation 23 The Bestial Soul VII. Innateness, Abstraction, and Essences 24 Innateness 25 Essences and Abstraction 26 The Polemic with Stillingfleet VIII. Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy 27 Dissimulation and Meaning 28 What Locke Said 29 Two Camps of Historians 30 History and Interpretation Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780691074009