FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, mathematics, political theory, ethics, psychoanalysis, literature and the arts, and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own.

SYNOPSIS

This collection includes essays by; William T. Bluhm, Lou Massa, Thomas Payel, John F. Post, Stephen Toulmin and David Weissman.

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