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Diderot and Descartes
By (Author) Aram Vartanian
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
146.3
Hardback
346
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
652g
A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D'Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of Descartes on the Enlightenment. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make av