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Descartes Paperback - 1991 - 1st Edition

by Cottingham, John G

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  • Title Descartes
  • Author Cottingham, John G
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 182
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Oxford
  • Date 1991-01-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP21203352
  • ISBN 9780631150466 / 0631150463
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.42 x 0.5 in (22.71 x 16.31 x 1.27 cm)
  • Reading level 1500
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Descartes, Rene, Descartes, Renae
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86006791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 194

From the rear cover

In this new introduction to the life, thought and works of one of the greatest seventeenth-century philosophers, John Cottingham aims to place Descartes' ideas in their historical context while at the same time showing how they relate to a network of philosophical problems that are still vigorously debated today.

Separate chapters are devoted to Descartes' life and the intellectual climate of his times; the Cartesian method; the reconstruction of knowledge from self to God and to the external world; Descartes' theory of the material universe; his account of mind and body; and his psychology and theory of the will and passions.

While doing justice to the complexities of Descartes' thought, the book presupposes no philosophical training, and all technical philosophical notions are explained in such a way as to be intelligible to the first-year student or general reader.

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About the author

John Cottingham is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is author of Rationalism (1994) and, in collaboration with R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch, of a new two-volume translation of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (1985).

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