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• Part One: Gassendi and the ‘Libertins’I. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Erudite Sceptics II. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Radical Naturalists III. The Ideas of Cyrano De Bergerac IV. Atheism and Political Radicalism V. Between Aristotle and Epicurus: Emmanuel Maignan VI. Gassendi’s Account of the Nature of Things VII. Lucretius and the Natural PhilosophersVIII. The Rehabilitation of Epicurus Part Two: Descartes and the RationalistsIX. Nature Without Consciousness X. The Fortunes of Descartes XI. Animal Automatism and its Critics XII. Monopsychism and the Reaction to Spinoza XIII. Le Grand Tout XIV. Clandestine Erudition XV. Clandestine Sociology XVI. Voltaire Versus PascalPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex

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• Part One: Gassendi and the ‘Libertins’I. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Erudite Sceptics II. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Radical Naturalists III. The Ideas of Cyrano De Bergerac IV. Atheism and Political Radicalism V. Between Aristotle and Epicurus: Emmanuel Maignan VI. Gassendi’s Account of the Nature of Things VII. Lucretius and the Natural PhilosophersVIII. The Rehabilitation of Epicurus Part Two: Descartes and the RationalistsIX. Nature Without Consciousness X. The Fortunes of Descartes XI. Animal Automatism and its Critics XII. Monopsychism and the Reaction to Spinoza XIII. Le Grand Tout XIV. Clandestine Erudition XV. Clandestine Sociology XVI. Voltaire Versus PascalPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex

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• Part One: Gassendi and the ‘Libertins’I. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Erudite Sceptics II. The Crisis of 1619-25: The Radical Naturalists III. The Ideas of Cyrano De Bergerac IV. Atheism and Political Radicalism V. Between Aristotle and Epicurus: Emmanuel Maignan VI. Gassendi’s Account of the Nature of Things VII. Lucretius and the Natural PhilosophersVIII. The Rehabilitation of Epicurus Part Two: Descartes and the RationalistsIX. Nature Without Consciousness X. The Fortunes of Descartes XI. Animal Automatism and its Critics XII. Monopsychism and the Reaction to Spinoza XIII. Le Grand Tout XIV. Clandestine Erudition XV. Clandestine Sociology XVI. Voltaire Versus PascalPostscriptSelect BibliographyIndex