The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt
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The Swerve
How the World Became Modern

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/23/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

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. "More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on August 22, 2019

"When we say...that pleasure is the end and aim of life, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in t......more

Goodreads review by Riku on February 27, 2014

The Anti-Climactic Swerve Greenblatt is a good story-teller and delivers good entertainment value here, but not much informative or educational value, except as an enticing short introductory to Lucretius, Bruno and Montaigne. As Greenblatt acknowledges, there is no single explanation for the emer......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 19, 2012

Two thousand years ago a Roman named Lucretius wrote a poem that described a universe guided by physical laws rather than the whims of mystical deities and also advised that people should pursue happiness rather than spend their lives trying to appease gods who don’t exist . As I write this in 2012......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on May 18, 2024

O carte despre o răsturnare istorică (oare de ce preferăm cărțile de acest gen?), scrisă cu un simț narativ deosebit, dar prea puțin convingătoare. De cele mai multe ori prefer o astfel de carte tocmai pentru ipoteza îndrăzneață pe care istoricul încearcă s-o justifice, deși pînă și el știe că încer......more