Descartes's "Meditations" - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847684873 ISBN 13: 9780847684878

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers. Ideal for courses on the history of philosophy and those centered on Descartes specifically , this collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate for students one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in Meditations.

About this title

About the Author

Vere Chappell is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is editor and co-author of the Cambridge Companion to Locke, and the co-author of Twenty-Five Years of Descartes Scholarship.

Review

Provides an excellent introduction. . . . This book will be as useful to beginners as to seasoned academics because it brings together eleven articles that are both clear and profound. . . . The organization of the book is both simple and efficient, and the brief introduction and the bibliography are well done. (J. M. Beyssade, Sorbonne, University of Paris)

This book is a collection of eleven terrific essays that represent a span of nearly thirty years of Descartes scholarship. The book clearly will not only benefit the professional researcher, but it will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate philosophy students interested in Descartes's work. (Review of Metaphysics)

The high quality essays in this reader are carefully arranged to parallel the plot of the Meditations. It is a valuable guide for students of Descartes's most famous philosophical work. (Alan Nelson, University of California, Irvine)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0847684873
• ISBN 13: 9780847684878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Chappell Vere