The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War

by Harold J. Cook

Ren Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am." But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of his time. Far from it. As a young nobleman, Descartes was a soldier and courtier who took part in some of the greatest events of his generation--a man who would not seem out of place in the pages of The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022646296X
• ISBN13: 9780226462967
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"