Tag: philosophy
The Swerve
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/07/27/the-swerve/
Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Author: Stephen Greenblatt (narrated by Edoardo Ballerini) Publisher: WW Norton, 2012 Summary/Review: Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is a historian. His most recent book ,winner of the 2012...
Logicomix
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/02/02/logicomix/
Title: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Author: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papademitriou Publisher: Bloomsbury, September 2009 Summary: Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, pacifist and lightning rod, was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This ambitious graphic biography focuses equally on his turbulent personal life and...