Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Gassendi, Digby, Gale, Cudworth and Malebranche--of the philosocial canon. Contrasting the Insiders’ receptions with those of the Outsiders, this collection gives new insight into the history of philosophy.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Creation of the Canon, G.A.J. Rogers Part I: Outsiders Chapter One: Becoming an Outsider: Gassendi in the History of Philosophy, Margaret J. Osler Chapter Two: Sir Kenelm Digby, Recusant Philosopher, John Henry Chapter Three: Theophilus Gale and Historiography of Philosophy, Stephen Pigney Chapter Four: The Standing of Ralph Cudworth as a Philosopher, Benjamin Carter Chapter Five: Nicholas Malebranche: Insider or Outsider?, Andrew Pyle Part II: Insiders Chapter Six: Excusable Caricature and Philosophical Relevance: The Case of Descartes, Tom Sorell Chapter Seven: Descartes’s Reputation, John Cottingham Chapter Eight: The Political Motivations of Heidegger’s anti-Cartesianism, Emmanuel Faye Chapter Nine: Hobbes’s Reputation in Anglo-American Philosophy, Tom Sorell Chapter Ten: A Farewell to Leviathan: Foucault and Hobbes on Power, Sovereignty and War, Luc Foisneau Chapter Eleven: Spinoza’s Past and Present, Wiep van Bunge Chapter Twelve: Benedictus Patheissimus, Steven Nadler Chapter Thirteen: The Standing and Reputation of John Locke, G.A.J. Rogers Chapter Fourteen: The Reputation of Locke’s General Philosophy in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Michael Ayers Chapter Fifteen: Leibniz’s Reputation: The Fontenelle Tradition, Daniel Garber Chapter Sixteen: Leibniz‘s Reputation in the Eighteenth century: Kant and Herder, Catherine Wilson Chapter Seventeen: The Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Robert Merrihew Adams Contributor Biographies Index