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The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715
Thomas M. Lennon
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects in it, and how these objects ... Read more
By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects in it, and how these objects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691633916
SKU
V9780691633916
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Reviews for The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715
"Lennon is arguing for a major reinterpretation of early modern philosophy... The book is clearly written and well-argued."
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