Forthcoming Descartes Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Receptions of Descartes

   Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Tad M. Schmaltz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Back to 'Things in Themselves'

   A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism

   By Josef Seifert

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   In an enlightening dialogue with Descartes, Kant, Husserl and Gadamer, Professor Seifert argues that the original inspiration of phenomenology was nothing other than the primordial insight of philosophy itself, the foundation of philosophia perennis. His radical rethinking of the phenomenological...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy

   By Gary Hatfield

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Descartes is widely regarded to be the father of modern philosophy and his Meditations is among the most important philosophical texts ever written. The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes’ Meditations introduces the major themes in Descartes’ great book and acts as a companion for reading this key...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge