Excellent4.8 out of 5On Trustpilot
  1. Christian Books/
  2. Christian Biographies

Bookmark this item

Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy

by Steven Nadler

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm

£14.18

Save 43%

Available - Usually dispatched within 5 days

Buying for a Church or School? Get 10% off every order and Buy Now Pay Later

Bookmark this item

Free delivery on orders over £15

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.
Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy and A Book Forged in Hell – Spinoza`s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
A Book Forged in Hell – Spinoza`s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular AgeDescartes: The Renewal of Philosophy

  • Title

    Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy

  • Author

    Steven Nadler

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Reaktion Books

  • Published

    March 2023

  • Weight

    634g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781789146837

  • ISBN-10

    1789146836

  • Eden Code

    5901332

Ebury Vine Ad