Descartes: The Story of a Mind

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74166-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mori, Gianluca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Über Autor(innen)

Gianluca Mori is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO). He has published monographs, critical editions and many articles on Early Modern Philosophy, including Bayle philosophe (1999, 2020) and Early Modern Atheism from Spinoza to d’Holbach (2021).