Descartes: The Story of a Mind

Descartes: The Story of a Mind offers a rigorous, historically grounded reappraisal of René Descartes's intellectual development. Rejecting fixed labels and anachronistic formulae, Mori portrays a thinker in motion--shaped by uncertainty, dialogue, and evolving contexts. Drawing on lesser-known texts, correspondences, and polemics, the book foregrounds the fragmentary, dialectical nature of Descartes's philosophy. From early influences to the unity expressed in the tree of knowledge, the book reconstructs a dynamic Cartesian trajectory that bridges metaphysics, science, and ethics, revealing a mind perpetually negotiating its boundaries amid the shifting debates of the seventeenth century.

Author: Gianluca Mori
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill
Published: 12/18/2025
Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy #13
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9789004741669