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The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, as well as the various strategies employed by Descartes’s supporters in order to communicate his ideas to their students. The volume considers a vast array of topics, sources, and institutions, across the borders of countries and confessions, both within and without the university setting (public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter) and enables us thereby to reconsider from a fresh perspective the history of early modern philosophy and education.
Price: $208.00
Pages: 573
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
Publication Date:
17 November 2022
ISBN: 9789004523265
Format: Hardcover
"Cet imposant volume (...) illustre admirablement une des tendances marquantes des recherches cartésiennes ces trente dernières années. (...) Ce volume ne se contente pas d’apporter du grain à moudre à la petite confrérie des cartésiens: parce qu’il articule les doctrines philosophiques et les contextes sociaux où ces dernières furent enseignées et diffusées, ils soulèvent des problèmes qui sont encore les nôtres." – Sophie Roux, in: Bulletin cartésien LV 89 (2026), pp. 222-229.
Davide Cellamare, Ph.D. (2015), Radboud University Nijmegen, is FWO Senior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on late medieval and early modern psychology (with a special focus on the institutional and confessional contexts), as well as on Cartesianism.
Mattia Mantovani, Ph.D. (2018), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is FWO Junior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on medieval and early modern epistemology and perception theory – with a special focus on Descartes – and on the role of diagrams in science.
Mattia Mantovani, Ph.D. (2018), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is FWO Junior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on medieval and early modern epistemology and perception theory – with a special focus on Descartes – and on the role of diagrams in science.