French image of the world. In winter with Descartes

The book "French image of the world. In winter with Descartes (Roman of Thinking) "of the famous Russian philosopher, culturalist, literary critic Georgy Dmitrievich Gachev (1929-2008), the author’s series" National images of the world" continues. Just as every person is a tric unity: body, soul, spirit, and each national-historical integrity is considered by scientists as the unity of local nature (cosmos), the nature of the people (psyche) and its warehouse of thinking (logos)
Written in the fall-winter 1972-1973, the book is an attempt to study the French mentality on the material of the biography and work of Rene Descartes, the ancestor of philosophy and science of the New Age. The author shows how the national affects the system of the world, the logic and style of the thinking of the philosopher and the scientist, explains to Descartes France and France - Descartes. The approach of the philosopher is interdisciplinary: in it the bridge between humanitarianism and natural science is thrown in it.
Like other works by Gachev, the book was created in the genre of existential cultural studies. The course of the author’s thoughts and the course of his life are mutually covered, forming a single "novel of thinking".
The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers - philosophers, culturalists, historians of science, teachers and students who are interested in the history of world culture.
Compiler Gacheva A. G