INTRODUCTION 1) General Remarks 9 2) Incipit Historia. Leibniz and Occasionalism 3) Status quaestionis -A Meta-Historical and Meta-Philosophical Map 3.1) The History of Historical-Philosophical Research on Occasionalism 3.2) Conceptual Tools 4) My Contribution to Current Research 5) Methodological Considerations 6) Structure of the Dissertation CHAPTER 1 The Natural Place of Géraud de Cordemoy's Occasionalism. A Project of Deconstruction and Reconstruction Introduction 1) Deconstruction 1.1) From the State to the Individual 1.2) Body and Matter: the Realm of Physics 2) Reconstruction 2.1) The Realm of Matter and Body-Body Occasionalism 2.2) Ecce Homo and Mind-Body Occasionalism 2.3) Language, Society and the State 3) The Threat of Eliminativism 3.1) The Problem 3.2) The Solution 3.3) Conclusion 4) The Political Dimension of Cordemoy's Project 4.1) Dreaming of an Ideal State 4.2) Supporting the Absolutism of Louis XIV 5) Conclusion CHAPTER 2 Occasionalism, Final Causes, and Life in the Natural Philosophy of