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28%OFFSteven Nadler - The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes - 9780691157306 - V9780691157306
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes

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Description for The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes Hardback.
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the authentic version, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting--and in its original--really Descartes? A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter investigates the remarkable individuals and circumstances behind a small portrait. Through this image--and the intersecting lives ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157306
SKU
V9780691157306
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16

About Steven Nadler
Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. His books include Rembrandt's Jews, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Spinoza: A Life, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award; and A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton).

Reviews for The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes
"Steven Nadler has produced another gem of original research and lively and lucid writing."
Catherine Wilson, Times Literary Supplement "Riveting... In The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter, Nadler has ... written his most inviting book yet... Nadler's detective work makes for fascinating reading... [T]he resulting survey of Golden Age Dutch culture, Cartesian philosophy and art connoisseurship ... makes for ... ... Read more

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