The Swerve: How the World Became ModernW. W. Norton & Company, 26. sep. 2011 - 368 strani Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller It was a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functions without the aid of gods, that religious fear is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is made up of very small material particles in eternal motion, randomly colliding and swerving in new directions. Its return to circulation changed the course of history. The poem’s vision would shape the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and—in the hands of Thomas Jefferson—leave its trace on the Declaration of Independence. From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical, competitive court of a corrupt and dangerous pope, Greenblatt brings Poggio’s search and discovery to life in a way that deepens our understanding of the world we live in now. “An intellectually invigorating, nonfiction version of a Dan Brown–like mystery-in-the-archives thriller.” —Boston Globe |
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In Search of Lucretius | |
The Teeth of Time | |
Birth and Rebirth | |
In the Lie Factory | |
A Pit to Catch Foxes | |
The Way Things | |
The Return | |
Swerves | |
Acknowledgments | |
Photograph Credits | |
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