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Descartes: A Biography
Desmond M. Clarke
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Description for Descartes: A Biography
hardcover. This biography addresses the full range of Descartes' interests and traces his intellectual development. Num Pages: 520 pages, 3 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 824. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes ... Read more
René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Pr.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521823012
SKU
KSG0033945
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About Desmond M. Clarke
Desmond Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork. He received a DLitt from the National University of Ireland, was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century, most recently Descartes' Theory of ... Read more
Reviews for Descartes: A Biography
Review of the hardback: 'Desmond Clarke … does a very good job of tracing the details of Descartes's life – the many comings and goings, the exchanges with other thinkers. Clarke takes the often fragmentary testimony that we have from the letters, the accounts found in earlier biographies and the newly discovered facts, and works them into a convincing narrative ... Read more