French philosophy for René Descartes' oeuvre. Modern philosophy began in France with the philosophy of René Descartes (1596–1650). His "Meditations on First Philosophy" changed the primary object of philosophical thought from ontology to epistemology and overcame the Aristotelian dogmatism inherited in philosophy from Scholasticism, the dominant form of thought in preceding centuries, while simultaneously raising some of the most fundamental problems for future generations of philosophers. René Descartes was concerned with the uncertainty in the sciences and the radical scepticism which spread across Europe when publications of Sextus Empiricus became available. Descartes desired to find indubitable ground on which all the sciences
Nietzsche and Philosophy philosopher Hans Sluga identifies "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as a possible influence on the philosopher Michel Foucault: he suggests that the work helped Foucault to discover Nietzsche as a "genealogical thinker, the philosopher of the will to power." Che-ming Yang describes "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as "one of Deleuze's masterpieces which highlights that the reading of Nietzsche is central to his own philosophical project". Axel Pérez Trujillo discussed the book in "Estudios Nietzsche: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Friedrich Nietzsche". Nietzsche and Philosophy Nietzsche and Philosophy () is a 1962 book about Friedrich Nietzsche by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze,