This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of
Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his
composing his first system of natural philosophy, "Le Monde, " in
1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined
development of Descartes projects in physico-mathematics,
analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic
corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. The concern is not
simply with the conceptual and technical aspects of these projects;
but, with Descartes agendas within them and his construction and
presentation of his intellectual identity in relation to them.
Descartes technical projects, agendas and senses of identity
shifted over time, entangled and displayed great successes and deep
failures, as he morphed from a mathematically competent, Jesuit
trained graduate in neo-Scholastic Aristotelianism to aspiring
prophet of a systematised corpuscular-mechanism, passing through
stages of being a committed "physico-mathematicus," advocate of a
putative universal mathematics, and projector of a grand
methodological dream. In all three dimensions projects, agendas and
identity concerns the young Descartes struggled and contended, with
himself and with real or virtual peers and competitors, hence the
title "Descartes-Agonistes" .
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