Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer by William Barrett

Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer

William Barrett

173 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Ever since Descartes saw nature as a vast, interlocking machine and science banished the soul, philosophers have been uncomfortable with this materialistic outlook. Barrett (Irrational Man here looks at the way in which various thinkers have attem...

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