The Swerve - How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
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Enlightenment
ideas
Lucretius
Renaissance
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The Swerve - How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
Length: 9 hours and 41 minutes
Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt’s works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s 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 by Lucretius-a beautiful poem containing 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.
(Although there is another copy on the site, the seed on that one appears to be dormant)
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 4.3/5
December 31st, 2018
One of my favourite non-fiction titles so far this century.
Everybody should know about Poggio Bracciolini. We all pay lipservice to the notion that the Renaissance rediscovered values like Knowledge and Freedom and Human Dignity:- but it was men like Poggio that made it work.
The Swerve is also a lesson in how many people have an interest in suppressing informed inquiry. The Church, the State, your family doctor - none of them are friends of the truth (it erodes their authority).
This is an essential text:- thank you ssafe05.
January 3rd, 2019
I agree with pryderi: it is most certainly an ‘essential text’. Thank you uploader.
January 4th, 2019
You are very welcome. Love this community of learners.
(Alas, poor BitMe)
January 23rd, 2019
Great stuff. Will seed everything I download here. I have poor eyesight because of an operation and don’t have too much cash to spend despite being 30. But yeah, I hugely appreciate these books that I can listen to on my free time without straining my eyes. Cheers to all.
October 12th, 2020
Thanks for the upload. Was curious about this book. Its important to take it with a grain of salt tho, because despite its lofty awards, its largely bunk. Apparently the part about Braciolini is great, but the overall narrative and theme of the book is what is false and fake history that has been widely lambasted by historians as inaccurate. From pryderi’s comment its easy to see why it became so popular and won so many prestigious awards. People still have a hollywood movie idea of that time period, instead of a realistic and historical view. I suggest checking out the LA Review of Books review to see the many issues with the ‘alternative history’ of this book. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-stephen-greenblatt-is-wrong-and-why-it-matters/
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