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The swerve : how the world became modern

Verfasser/in:	Stephen Greenblatt
Verlag:	New York : W.W. Norton, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung:	In this book the author transports readers 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. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a 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 Weiterlesen…
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Name:	Titus Lucretius Carus; Titus Lucretius Carus; Titus Lucretius Carus; Titus Lucretius Carus; Titus Lucretius Carus
Dokumenttyp:	Buch
Alle Autoren:	Stephen Greenblatt Weitere Informationen zu:
ISBN:	0393064476 9780393064476
OCLC-Nummer:	711051785
Auszeichnungen:	Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2012.
Beschreibung:	356 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Inhalt:	The book hunter -- The moment of discovery -- In search of Lucretius -- The teeth of time -- Birth and rebirth -- In the lie factory -- A pit to catch foxes -- The way things are -- The return -- Swerves -- Afterlives.
Verfasserangabe:	Stephen Greenblatt.

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In this book the author transports readers 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. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a 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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The Swerve is a wonderful, scholarly book that I learned from, about origins of modernity. Rarely does a book lack misspellings and typos,...
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The Swerve is a wonderful, scholarly book that I learned from, about origins of modernity. Rarely does a book lack misspellings and typos, but all I could detect here were a couple of word mistakes (one being ‘puddle’ when the intention was ‘muddle’), at least three obscure person references that should have been clarified in end notes or bibliography entries, and one or two totally mysterious sentences. Larger concerns are more worth noting after this establishment that I was a careful reader. There is probably a subtle authorial bias from Greenblatt’s Jewish upbringing (which he informs readers about at the beginning) in this convincingly objective account. On the one hand, he emphasizes many failures of Christianity, which I have no doubt is accurate (fair-minded) if unbalanced, and on the other is failure to adequately link it with its Judaism ancestor, the other parent of course being Greek (and other) paganism about which Greenblatt is abundantly responsive. There is also a Western bias. For example, scant allusion is made to outside influences from Asia in Greek philosophy, although in his defense apparently there is little written acknowledged evidence of them. More specifically, Epicurus apparently followed in time the evolution of Buddhism out of Hinduism, and there are many similarities of world view. It is easily possible that these were simply parallel developments arising from parallel cultural realities, or it could be that there was an egotistic slant weighing against crediting foreigner precedent. At any rate, the modernity of science did arise only in one time and in one region: all the early scientists were monotheistic Christians and Jews from Western Europe and the U.S. None were from India, China, Africa, non-European (non-British) Americas, or elsewhere, even as these regions/cultures were quite evolved otherwise and of course copied science eventually to varying degrees. It is a really important enterprise to figure out why this happened and Greenblatt adds quite a lot. I am reminded of another excellent book I also just read called Galileo’s Muse in which the role of the humanities is similarly emphasized as causing science to emerge. I also recommend Santayana’s Three Philosophical Poets which is included in the lengthy (in a good sense) bibliography but not even mentioned (excusably I guess). I conclude with two other gripes, not really about the writing as the story. I don’t get why Epicurus could disparage many, or all, primitive notions such as ghosts and yet uncritically embrace the idea of a soul. And I don’t think the idea of the swerve was thoughtfully addressed as a concept. Greenblatt probably should have risked the charge of talking down to his readers by explicitly linking this abstract, limited concept (tiny movements of atoms?) to the large-scale issue of the schism between modern and pre-modern mentality. I mean, he did this indeed in terms of the entire book, just not clearly enough in so many words in a summary passage, which is, I would guess, because the concept of Epicurus was not properly investigated by either person. Regarding the former, perhaps the soul is shorthand for recognition that people are animals but animals are not people, and regarding the latter, that there is both randomness and design (progress) at the core of reality.

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