Author: Cole, John Richard
Title: The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of René Descartes
Description: Urbana & Chicago, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1992. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xi, 299 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Surviving Evidence on Descartes's Lost Little Notebook: The Stockholm Inventory and the "Cogitationes Privatae"; Adrien Baillet and his "Vie de Monsieur Des Cartes"; The Dream Day, 10 November 1619: Intellectual Revolition and Vocational Decision; Saint Martin's Eve and Saint Martin's Day - after; The Father and the Friend, Attraction and Repulsion: Joachim Descartes's Family and the Law; Isaac Beeckman and the Search for Truth; Particular Dream Elements and a Particular's Associations: Dream I and Dream II; Dream III and the Olympian Interpretations; Conclusion: The Dreaming Man and The Thinking Thing. Appendices: The Historical Evidence on the Olympian Dreams.

Keywords: Cartesian Philosophy, Dreams, Seventeenth Century, History of Ideas, Rene Descartes, , , ,