The Swerve. How the World Became Modern.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Comoany, 2011. Item #929
8vo. 245 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches]. [10], 356 pp. Illustrated throughout with plates and text images. Cloth, dust jacket.
National Book Award winner Stephen Greenblatt, pitches a story that combines the evolution of modern thought with the creative energy unleashed in Italy during the blossoming years of the Renaissance. " The Swerve reveals a key moment in the history of man -- the precise moment when 'humanism' in its first sense, the quest for the grammar of our ancestors, becomes 'humanism' in our sense, the quest for meaning in our pleasures.. . . This is truly the book that puts the epic in Epicurean." Adam Gopnik.
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