Book review

[blessed_oak]

Descartes' Bones by Russel Shorto

I found this featured on a table at Half Price Books and snatched it up.  Shorto traces a brief biography of Rene Descartes and the passage of his bones from hand to hand across Europe over hundreds of years, and interlaces it with the effects of Cartesianism on the development of modern Western thought.  Besides

Comments

[kensmind]

Excellent pun! At first I thought the subject matter wasn't right for an interesting book, but obviously the author found a way to engage his readers.

[kaishin108]

That does sound fascinating, what a deep subject!

[sukhavati]

Now I'm going to have to see if my local library has it :) Sounds intriguing.