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Descartes: The Story of a Mind offers a rigorous, historically grounded reappraisal of René Descartes’s intellectual development. Rejecting fixed labels and anachronistic formulae, Mori portrays a thinker in motion—shaped by uncertainty, dialogue, and evolving contexts. Drawing on lesser-known texts, correspondences, and polemics, the book foregrounds the fragmentary, dialectical nature of Descartes’s philosophy. From early influences to the unity expressed in the tree of knowledge, the book reconstructs a dynamic Cartesian trajectory that bridges metaphysics, science, and ethics, revealing a mind perpetually negotiating its boundaries amid the shifting debates of the seventeenth century.

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Gianluca Mori is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO). He has published monographs, critical editions and many articles on Early Modern Philosophy, including Bayle philosophe (1999, 2020) and Early Modern Atheism from Spinoza to d’Holbach (2021).

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