As this book is a reprinting of Harry Frankfurt's influential work,
originally published in 1970, we should first deal with what is new in
it. In her foreword to this new Princeton edition Rebecca Goldstein
echoes Frankfurt's own contention that Descartes, more so than other
philosopher's, has fallen into contempt by way of familiarity. She
points out that Frankfurt engages in a refreshing act of
defamiliarization throughout this close reading of the Meditations and
goes on to touch on the theme of a certain forgetting bred from this
familiarity that has concealed a denser 'antiphonal chorus in which
those eponymous demons dreamers and madmen chime in...' Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4269

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