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This is the Penguin edition. It includes multiple works by Descartes: (0) an introduction that gives some background information, (1) Meditations on First Philosophy, (2) Objections and Replies, a text that gives replies to common objections against his Meditations, (3) Principles of Philosophy, basically a summarized version of (1), (4) Descartes’ correspondence, which is a collection of letters with people asking him questions regarding his work, and finally (5) comments on a certain manifesto, which is a rebuttal against the work of philosophers of his time who Descartes thought had misunderstood him.

I really like how the text is written. I don’t know how much that is due to this particular translation or Descartes himself, but it is very readable and I enjoy his stylistic choices. Content-wise, I like that he first questions all assumptions, basically tearing down the established worldview before starting again and trying to reconstruct it from the ground up. I like this approach.

Personally, I think this “tear down” is more interesting than the reconstruction, as quite early on I already had a bunch of problems with the reconstruction, so the later parts were less interesting because they depended on earlier parts I had already disagreed with.

I also think it’s really cool to include common objections people had against his work and then provide his direct replies. Often, philosophical works do not take objections this seriously.

Having the Principles of Philosophy as a quick summary of his work is also really nice. I think in general more works should have this structure: first the main philosophical work (i.e., the argument), then a section with common objections, and finally a summary. It makes everything very neat and approachable. The correspondence that Descartes had with Princess Elizabeth was also very cute to read, it gives an interesting view of the time: what people thought, what issues they had, and so on.

Finally, his comment on a manifesto was a really brutal takedown of his opponent. Descartes would have fit right into modern debate culture, in a positive way.

I read, or more like listened to, this as an audiobook in German, and the audiobook version adds so much. I think this is maybe the first time where I would say not only is the audiobook version probably superior (I did not read the physical book), but I would actually recommend it over the book itself. The narrator gives every character a different voice, the music is well done, and the overall audio design in general is great.

But about the book itself: it’s a silly fantasy book that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It works a lot with language, so I would recommend reading it in German, I don’t know how well it would translate. The author loves using long lists of made-up things, which are very fun to listen to/read through. It just has a lot of creativity and silliness to it. Fun read.