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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes

by Lisa Shapiro · Lisa Shapiro (ed. and trans.)

A complete English edition of the letters exchanged between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth from 1643 to 1649. Elisabeth's searching questions about how an immaterial soul can move the body make the correspondence a classic of the mind–body problem.

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