This is the first biography of Ren Descartes published since 1920 to be based on extensive original archival research. It is also explicitly the life of Descartes, in the flesh and blood, not a compendium of technical analyses of philosophical positions found in 'life and works' biographies so dear to contemporary professional philosophers. Watson brings Descartes and his milieu to life as has never been done before.
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"Unlike any other book on Descartes I know of.... It is exciting to accompany Watson through the countryside of rural Holland and France, through the twisted streets of old Stockholm, through the dusty books and archives. . . . Whatever the results of the scholarly debates, what emerges is a vivid picture both of Descartes and of Watson himself." -- Daniel Garber "University of Chicago"
Richard Watson is a distinguished Cartesian scholar and a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.
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