{"product_id":"humanly-possible-seven-hundred-years-of-humanist-freethinking-inquiry-and-hope-sarah-bakewell","title":"Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope;  Sarah Bakewell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHumanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The humanistic worldview--as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous--has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVoyaging from the literary enthusiasts of the fourteenth century to the secular campaigners of our own time, from Erasmus to Esperanto, from anatomists to agnostics, from Christine de Pizan to Bertrand Russell, and from Voltaire to Zora Neale Hurston, Bakewell brings together extraordinary humanists across history. She explores their immense variety: some sought to promote scientific and rationalist ideas, others put more emphasis on moral living, and still others were concerned with the cultural and literary studies known as \"the humanities.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumanly Possible\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003easks not only what brings all these aspects of humanism together but why it has such enduring power, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, and tyrants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA singular examination of this vital tradition as well as a dazzling contribution to its literature, this is an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved writers. And at a moment when we are all too conscious of the world's divisions, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumanly Possible--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrimming with ideas, experiments in living, and respect for the deepest ethical values--serves as a recentering, a call to care for one another, and a reminder that we are all, together, only human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 28, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eSarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Smart\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Dane\u003c\/em\u003e, and the best-selling\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Live: A Life of Montaigne\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to writing, she now teaches in the Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She lives in London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52268817711426,"sku":null,"price":11.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/humanlypossible.jpg?v=1773153315","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/humanly-possible-seven-hundred-years-of-humanist-freethinking-inquiry-and-hope-sarah-bakewell","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}