Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.If you are reading this, it's likely you a...

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