{"id":28907,"date":"2021-09-07T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28907"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T20:43:38","slug":"book-report-descartes-in-90-minutes-by-paul-strathern-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/book-report-descartes-in-90-minutes-by-paul-strathern-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Descartes in 90 Minutes<\/i> by Paul Strathern (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/descartesin90minutes.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">It&#8217;s been a while since I read <em>Discourses on Method<\/em>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/book-report-discourse-on-method-by-rene-descartes-translated-by-donald-a-cress-1637-1998\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">four years<\/a>.  Wow, the teenager I mentioned in that post moved away, came back to Springfield to go to the university, worked at the dojo briefly, and has moved on to a realer job whilst studying.  Tempus fugit, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, this book is a brief overview of Descartes&#8217; life and work.  It clocks in under 90 pages in fairly large print, so you might have to be a slow reader to squeeze 90 minutes out of it.  It leans heavily on the bio and on broad themes in Descartes writing instead of details of his arguments, but I&#8217;m sure this book is supposed to be a gateway to the other books, kind of a starter for people thinking of getting into philosophy&#8211;or who have a brief paper to write, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>So a nice quick read after a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/05\/book-report-four-past-midnight-by-stephen-king-1990\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">chonker of a King book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B00022F61Y&#038;asins=B00022F61Y&#038;linkId=960febf8137f6893a4c04384a36cf5e8&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I read Discourses on Method&#8212;four years. Wow, the teenager I mentioned in that post moved away, came back to Springfield to go to the university, worked at the dojo briefly, and has moved on to a realer job whilst studying. Tempus fugit, ainna? At any rate, this book is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28908,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907\/revisions\/28908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}