Sunday, April 9, 2023

Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell

 

Humanly Possible:  Seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope by Sarah Bakewell

Started: 4/5/2023
Completed: 4/8/2023
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Cannot Remember, maybe The Guardian

Review:

This is a whirlwind tour of the fundamental thinkers who form humanist thought.  For some, it was a quick review.  For others it was a touchpoint (Thomas Mann, for example, I knew more through The Magician than through his actual works).  For some, it was an introduction.  There is no doubt that this book will lead to others that offer a little more detail and to more philosophical works that are less a sketch of a life and more about how to live a life.

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