TY - BOOK AU - Schmaltz, Tad M (ed) AU - Schmaltz,Tad M. TI - Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism in early modern Europe SN - 0415323606 AV - B1875 .R42 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Descartes, René, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index; Introduction; Tad M. Schmaltz --; PART I. THE INITIAL RECEPTION AMONG WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS --; Women philosophers and the early reception of Descartes: Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth; Sarah Hutton --; PART II. THE FRENCH RECEPTION AND FRENCH CARTESIANISM --; Desgabets's indefectibility thesis - a step too far?; Patricia Easton --; A reception without attachment: Malebranche confronting Cartesian morality; Jean-Christophe Bardout --; Huet on the reality of Cartesian doubt; Thomas M. Lennon --; French Cartesianism in context: the Paris Formulary and Regis's Usage; Tad M. Schmaltz --; PART III. SPINOZA AND THE DUTCH RECEPTION --; Descartes's soul, Spinoza's mind; Steven Nadler --; Wittich's critique of Spinoza; Theo Verbeek --; Burchard de Volder: crypto-Spinozist or disenchanted Cartesian?; Paul Lodge --; PART IV. THE RECEPTION IN ROME AND NAPLES --; Cartesian physics and the Eucharist in the documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6); Jean-Robert Armogathe --; Images of Descartes in Italy; Giulia Belgioioso --; PART V. THE RECEPTION ACROSS THE CHANNEL --; Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the failures of the Cartesian philosophy; Douglas Jesseph --; Descartes among the British: the case of the theory of vision; Margaret Atherton ER -