The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

13 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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