2011 · New York and London
by Greenblatt, Stephen
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Comoany, 2011. 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.. (truncated)
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.. (truncated)
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