Books by Russell Shorto
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English
review 1: The perfect confluence - a conscious effort to read more non-fiction and a need to purge and reorganize the books - led me to Descartes' Bones. Shorto traces the history of the Enlightenment from Descartes' famous "I think, therefore I am" to the present day and along the way he ...
language
English
review 1: Rene Descartes is credited as the first modern philosopher. Most of us have heard his seminal statement, “Cogito ergo sum”; I think therefore I am. For me it was a sidebar in a high school algebra text. Beyond that I really didn’t know that much about him until I read Russell Sh...