Abstract

Abstract In this introduction to the book, I review the background to La Forge’s philosophical contributions to the fortunes of Cartesian philosophy and provide some historical context for the analysis of his works. Louis de La Forge was one of the great unsung heroes of seventeenth-century Cartesianism. He did much to further the Cartesian cause by commenting on, illustrating, updating Descartes’s Treatise on Man, and then completed the Cartesian project with his own Treatise on the Human Mind. In this introduction to the book, I review the background to La Forge’s philosophical contributions to the fortunes of Cartesian philosophy and provide some historical context for the analysis of his works. This includes the status of Cartesianism in the mid-seventeenth century, both its partisans and its opponents.

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