Meditations & Other Writings

This selection centres on Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, first issued in 1641, in which a speaker discards doubtful beliefs, arrives at the certainty of his own thinking, argues for God's existence, and distinguishes mind from body. Accompanying pieces typically include the Discourse on the Method, with its path through school, army service, and private study, and shorter writings on the passions, the rules of inquiry, and correspondence that tests the same arguments. Objections and replies sometimes sit beside the core text. The volume is a cluster of metaphysical and methodological works, not a biography and not a single continuous book.

Quarter-bound in dark grey buckram with yellow Modigliani paper sides printed with a colour picture by Shout. Black slipcase.