This new comparative study considers the impact of Descartes's thought on early modern philosophy, theology and science. This consideration reveals that competing Cartesianisms emerged in the Netherlands and France during a period dating from the last decades of Descartes's life to the century or so following his death in 1650.

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Notes for Introduction 1. Cartesianisms in Crisis 1.1. Two Problems for Descartes 1.2. The Problem of the Eucharist 1.3. The Problem of Human Freedom Notes for Chapter 1 2. Ancient and Modern Descartes(es) 2.1. Descartes on the Ancients 2.2. Ancient Descartes 2.3. Modern Descartes Notes for Chapter 2 3. Augustinian Cartesianisms 3.1. Descartes and Augustine 3.2. Augustine in Later Cartesianism 3.3. Augustine and Eternal Truths 3.4. The Great Debate: Arnauld v. Malebranche Notes for Chapter 3 4. Cartesian Occasionalisms 4.1. Descartes and Occasionalism 4.2. Mind-Body Occasionalisms: Clauberg and Arnauld 4.3. 1666 Occasionalisms: La Forge and Cordemoy 4.4. Complete Occasionalisms: Geulincx and Malebranche Notes for Chapter 4 5. Cartesianisms in Dutch Medicine 5.1. Mechanism and Empiricism in Descartes's Medicine 5.2. Regius, Descartes and Cartesianism 5.3. Mechanism and Empiricism in Dutch Medicine Notes for Chapter 5 6. Cartesianisms in French Physics 6.1. Mechanism and Empiricism in Descartes's Physics 6.2. Qualitative French Cartesian Physics 6.3. Quantitative French Cartesian Physics Notes for Chapter 6 Afterword Notes for Afterword Works Cited Index

"Overall, Schmaltz succeeds admirably in complicating--and I mean this in a good sense--our view of early modern Cartesianism. The story he tells, with great scholarly care, adds nuance to our understanding of what was happening in the seventeenth century when we turn our attention from marquee figures like Spinoza, Locke and Leibniz and consider the philosophical journeymen who worked hard to keep Descartes's system--if not in all its details--vital." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Range, scholarship and clarity will make EMC of interest to many readers. Descartes-scholars will learn from it how malleable the thought of the master became in the hands of his disciples. Specialists of the eighteenth century will welcome this review of the many areas in which both the French and Dutch Enlightenment remained indebted to Descartes. Every philosophical library will need a copy." -- Science et Esprit

Selling point: The first comparative study of early modern receptions of Descartes in Europe since the nineteenth century Selling point: An emphasis on a definition of Cartesianism in terms not simply Descartes's own views, but also of later intellectual developments Selling point: A comparative consideration of Calvinist and Catholic condemnations of Descartes and of the incompatible Cartesian responses to these during the early modern period Selling point: A new treatment of the different attitudes within early modern Cartesianism toward ancient philosophy and modernity

Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics in early modern philosophy and the history and philosophy of science, and is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul (1996), Radical Cartesianism (2002), and Descartes on Causation (2008).

Selling point: The first comparative study of early modern receptions of Descartes in Europe since the nineteenth century Selling point: An emphasis on a definition of Cartesianism in terms not simply Descartes's own views, but also of later intellectual developments Selling point: A comparative consideration of Calvinist and Catholic condemnations of Descartes and of the incompatible Cartesian responses to these during the early modern period Selling point: A new treatment of the different attitudes within early modern Cartesianism toward ancient philosophy and modernity