Replay: Descartes, Traveler
Hal Cook talks about the travels and trials of the youngย Renรฉ Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as studying philosophy. Cook is theย John F. Nickoll Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
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