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Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven NadlerSeries:Renaissance LivesPublish date:2023-03-16Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789146837ISBN-10:1789146836UPC:9781789146837Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:PhilosophersSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCZXK5G6VD
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789146837ISBN-10:1789146836UPC:9781789146837Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:PhilosophersSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCZXK5G6VD
Steven Nadler is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his books include Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die.

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Steven Nadler

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