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Descartes’ Bones audiobook
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrator: Russell Shorto
- Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 31, 2008
- Language: English
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Descartes’ Bones Audiobook Summary
From bestselling, prize-winning author Russell Shorto comes a grand and strange history of the on-going debate between religion and science-seen through the oddly momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene Descartes. In this book Shorto brilliantly shows how this argument first started with Descartes and how his ideas (and bones) have remained central to this theoretical struggle for over 350 years. On a brutal winter’s day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the pious French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes’ bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who was hounded from country after country on charges of atheism? Why would Descartes’ bones take such a strange, serpentine path over the next 350 years-a path intersecting some of the grandest events imaginable: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, the mind-body problem, the conflict between faith and reason? The answer lies in Descartes’ famous phrase: cogito ergo sum. “I think therefore I am.” This quote from his work Discourse on the Method, destroyed 2,000 years of received wisdom by introducing an attitude of human skepticism towards ideas of medicine, nature, politics and society. The notion that one could look to provable facts, and not rely on the Church’s teachings and tradition, was one of the most influential ideas in human history, ultimately creating the scientific method and overthrowing religion as prevailing truth. Descartes’ Bones is a fascinating narrative-both macro and micro history in one-that twists and turns up to the present day.
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Descartes’ Bones Full Details
| Narrator | Russell Shorto |
| Length | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | Russell Shorto |
| Publisher | Recorded Books, Inc. |
| Release date | October 31, 2008 |
| ISBN | 9781436185097 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Descartes’ Bones is Recorded Books, Inc.. The imprint is Recorded Books, Inc.. It is supplied by Recorded Books, Inc.. The ISBN-13 is 9781436185097.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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