Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen Gau
Preface; Chronological Table; Introduction ; 1. A Learned and Eloquent Piety ; 2. An Education in Propriety, 1606-1618 ; 3. The Apprenticeship with Beeckman, 1618-1619 ; 4. The Search for Method, 1619-1625 ; 5. The Paris Years, 1625-1628 ; 6. A New Beginn