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From the rear cover

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label. The collection of original essays addresses topics ranging from theodicy and early modern music theory to Spinoza's anti-humanism, often critically revising important aspects of the received picture of the Rationalists. Another important contribution of the volume is that it brings out aspects of Rationalist philosophers and their legacies that are not ordinarily associated with them, such as the project of a Cartesian ethics. Finally, a strong emphasis is placed on the connection of the Rationalists' philosophy to their interests in empirical science, to their engagement in the political life of their era, and to the religious background of many of their philosophical commitments.

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Title The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation
Author Carlos Fraenkel (Editor); Dario Perinetti (Editor); Justin E. Smith (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 2011th
Edition 2011
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Springer
Date 2010-10-24
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9789048193844 / 9048193842
Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.42 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010936524
Dewey Decimal Code 515.353

About the author

Carlos Fraenkel is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal. His publications include From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dallat al-H'irn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2007 (Hebrew) and Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza--Reason, Religion, and Autonomy, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Dario Perinetti is associate professor in the department of philosophy at Universit du Qubec Montral. He has published on David Hume, G.W. Hegel and early modern philosophy of history. He is currently completing a manuscript book on David Hume. Justin E. H. Smith is associate professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz's Philosophy of Biology (Princeton University Press, 2010), and is currently working on a critical edition and translation for the Yale Leibniz series, with Franois Duchesneau, of Georg Ernst Stahl's Negotium Otiosum. His current research concerns the impact of European colonial expansion and exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries on early modern philosophical reflections about human nature and human difference.