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Descartes The Renewal of Philosophy Renaissance Lives

by [Nadler, Steven]

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A critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy.

Often called the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes set the intellectual agenda for seventeenth-century philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and beyond. In this critical biography, based on compelling new research, Steven Nadler follows Descartes from his early education in France to the Dutch Republic, where he lived most of his adult life, to his final months as a tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden. Along the way, Nadler shows how Descartes renewed philosophy by transforming fundamental assumptions about the cosmos, natural world, and human nature as well as how his work continues to generate new insights into many of the metaphysical and epistemological problems that engage philosophers today.

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  • Reaktion Books Brand
  • Mar 16, 2023 Pub Date:
  • 9781789146837 ISBN-13:
  • 1789146836 ISBN-10:
  • 288.0 pages Hardcover
  • English Language
  • 8.5 in * 1.1 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: