Insiders and outsiders in seventeenth-century philosophy

Introduction : the creation of the canon / G.A.J. Rogers -- Pt. I, Outsiders. Becoming and outsider : Gassendi in the history of philosophy / Margaret J. Osler ; Sir Kenelm Digby, recusant philosopher / John Henry ; Theophilus Gale and historiography of philosophy / Stephen Pigney ; The standing of Ralph Cudworth as a philosopher / Benjamin Carter ; Nicholas Malebranche : insider or outsider? / Andrew Pyle -- Pt. II, Insiders. Descartes. Excusable caricature and philosophical relevance : the case of Descartes / Tom Sorell ; Descartes' reputation / John Cottingham ; The political motivations of Heidegger's anti-Cartesianism / Emmanuel Faye ; Hobbes. Hobbes' reputation in Anglo-American philosophy / Tom Sorell ; A farewell to Leviathan : Foucault and Hobbes on power, sovereignty and war / Luc Foisneau ; Spinoza. Spinoza past and present / Wiep van Bunge ; Benedictus pantheissimus / Steven Nadler ; Locke. The standing and reputation of John Locke / G.A.J. Rogers ; The reputation of Locke's general philosophy in Britain in the twentieth century / Michael Ayers ; Leibniz. Leibniz's reputation : the Fontenelle tradition / Daniel Garber ; Leibniz's reputation in the eighteenth century : Kant and Herder / Catherine Wilson ; The reception of Leibniz's philosophy in the twentieth century / Robert Merrihew Adams

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