Early Modern French Thought The Age of Suspicion [Hardcover]

This book deals with three major French thinkers of the seventeenth century, Descartes, Pascal, and Malebranche. It examines their influential critical accounts of the impact of the body and of social relationships on experience, and the need to correct this by reference to metaphysical or religious truth.

A note on translations and references
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Theology and History in Seventeenth-Century France: Problems and Perspectives
2. Descartesforma futuri
3. Pascal's Critique of Experience
4. Malebranche: 'What is Falsely Called Experience'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Michael Moriarty is Head of the School of Modern Languages and Professor of French Literature and Thought at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications includeTaste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France(CUP 1988) andRoland Barthes(Polity 1991).