René Descartes & Adolphe Garnier - Œuvres philosophiques de Descartes - 1834-1835

Superb four-volume set that brings together a substantial collection of texts allowing readers to follow the main stages of René Descartes' thought and to understand the foundational role he occupies in modern philosophy, with an introduction and editorial apparatus associated with Adolphe Garnier -

This publication is part of the 19th-century movement aimed at making great philosophical texts more accessible to cultivated readers, to students and to educational institutions, while offering an orderly reading of a work whose influence extends far beyond the field of metaphysics -

Cartesian thought rests first on a demand for method, intended to lead the mind toward certain knowledge by freeing it as much as possible from prejudices, intellectual habits, and insufficiently founded assertions -

René Descartes & Adolphe Garnier - Œuvres philosophiques de Descartes - 1834/1835 - Tome I, II, III, IV - Librairie Classique et Elémentaire de L. Hachette -
2 287 pages -

Good condition of bindings, works in their original half-basane, brown calfskin/pearl paper? covers, slight wear, some minor defects on the covers, speckled edges, spine with raised bands ornamented, titles, pagination and author’s name gilded, blind-stamped lines on the covers, with a coat of arms of the Lycée Henri-IV on the first boards -

Good interior condition, some foxing (more pronounced on certain leaves), text fairly clean, marbled endpapers in good condition, a fine set -

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