The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
Shared by:katesky
How the World Became Modern
One of the world’s most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
The copying and translation of this ancient book—the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.
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| Creation Date: | Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:48:24 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 08 - The Swerve - The Way Things Are.mp3 19.87 MBs | |
| 07 - The Swerve - A Pit to Catch Foxes.mp3 27.83 MBs | |
| 06 - The Swerve - In the Lie Factory.mp3 20.25 MBs | |
| 09 - The Swerve - The Return.mp3 15.76 MBs | |
| 10 - The Swerve - Swerves.mp3 23.09 MBs | |
| Swerve.jpg 38.76 KBs | |
| 11 - The Swerve - Afterlives.mp3 22.61 MBs | |
| 05 - The Swerve - Birth and Rebirth.mp3 26.2 MBs | |
| 04b - The Swerve - The Teeth of Time.mp3 14.07 MBs | |
| 01 - The Swerve - The Book Hunter.mp3 8.9 MBs | |
| 00Pb - The Swerve - Preface.mp3 11.09 MBs | |
| 00Pa - The Swerve - Preface.mp3 2.42 MBs | |
| 02 - The Swerve - The Moment of Discovery.mp3 27.43 MBs | |
| 03a - The Swerve - In Search of Lucretius.mp3 16.14 MBs | |
| 04a - The Swerve - The Teeth of Time.mp3 15.98 MBs | |
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| 00In - The Swerve - Introduction.mp3 118.3 KBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 266.58 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
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October 13th, 2014
Thanks, katesky. I always enjoy Greenblatt’s articles in various literary periodicals, and look forward to hearing his book.
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