Shorto, R: Descartes' Bones A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Little, Brown Book Group
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.05.2014
Verlag
Little, Brown Book GroupSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
13/19.9/2.1 cm
Gewicht
236 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-349-14018-6
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. Descartes' Bones is a flesh-and-blood story about the battle between religion and rationalism that rages to this day.
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