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Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia

The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century

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  1. Pietro Daniel Omodeo

    1. Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy

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  • New perspectives on the history of Cartesian philosophy
  • A socially embedded history of science and philosophy
  • A novel insight in the cultural politics of early modern thought in Prussia

Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 62)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Cartesianismus-Streit in Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653–1656

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 1-32

  3. Nature and Scripture: Confessional Networks and Cross-Confessional Exegetical Problems

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 33-45

  4. A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659–1660

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 47-80

  5. The Mechanization of Astrology, 1661–1665

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 81-100

  6. Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki as a Display of Symbolic Capital

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 101-125

  7. Medical and Demonological Approaches to Descartes’s Psychophysical Dualism: Andreae and Brecht

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 127-149

  8. Cartesian Bodies: Experiments on Embalmment

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 151-173

  9. The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism: Conclusions and Perspectives

    • Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    Pages 175-196

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 197-214
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About this book

This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy

    Pietro Daniel Omodeo

About the author

Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research endeavor “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). Among others, he is the author of Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019) and Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (with Jürgen Renn) (2019). His books also include the edited volumes Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World: Gramscian Concepts for the History of Science (with Massimiliano Badino) (2020); Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance (2019); and Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science (with Rodolfo Garau) (2019).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia

  • Book Subtitle: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century

  • Authors: Pietro Daniel Omodeo

  • Series Title: Archimedes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01964-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-01963-0Published: 28 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-01966-1Published: 29 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-01964-7Published: 26 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1385-0180

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 214

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Arts, Design, general

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