Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Bakewell Sarah
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Bakewell Sarah A delightful, soul-enriching, sweeping new history of humanism--a grand intellectual adventure…
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Bakewell Sarah
A delightful, soul-enriching, sweeping new history of humanism--a grand intellectual adventure spanning from ancient Greece, through the Renaissance, to the work of James Baldwin, the present day, and beyond--by Sarah Bakewell, bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist CafThis is a book about humanists, but even humanists cannot agree on what a humanist is, declares Sarah Bakewell. Humanism can be found in writings of Plato and Protagoras and in the thought of Confucius. Indeed, for centuries now, thinkers, writers, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, and countless others have been searching for and refining a philosophy of the human spirit.
When Zora Neale Hurston writes, Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the It is ever-present in the work of Michel de Montaigne, and guided the thinking and activism of Harriet Taylor Mill.