The Swerve : How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt是世界上最著名的學者之一，他創作了一部創新的歷史著作和一部驚人的故事，其中一本從千年摘下的手稿改變了人類思想的進程，使世界成為我們可能知道的。

這本古籍的複制和翻譯是這個時代最偉大的發現，為文藝復興提供了刺激、鼓舞人心的藝術家。如Botticelli和諸如Giordano Bruno等思想家;塑造了Galileo和Freud、Darwin和Einstein的想法;並對Montaigne、Shakespeare甚至Thomas Jefferson等作家產生了革命性的影響。 16頁全彩色插圖。

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling 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. 16 pages full-color illustrations

 Stephen Greenblatt (Autor)

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company 

ISBN:    978-0393064476 

 原價   US 26.95 台幣價 NT$:940