Books of Interest: Descartes an Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger

Descartes_biography

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I keep going back to this old friend, when I have questions, and when I want to renew that friendship in pursuit of my intellectual quests.

Intellectual Quixote

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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