Descartes' bones : a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason
Shorto, Russell2014
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Sixteen years after Rene.. Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters. But as Russell Shorto shows in this deeply engaging book, Descartes' bones also played a role in some of the most momentous episodes in history, which are also part of the philosopher's metaphorical remains: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, and the earliest debates between reason and faith.
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Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2014.
Collation:
xxii, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2008.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780349140186 (pbk)
Dewey class:
231.042
Language:
English
BRN:
921622