The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

Grayling, Professor A. C.

ISBN 10: 1408870029 / ISBN 13: 9781408870020

Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2017

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Inhaltsangabe:

Best-selling author A. C. Grayling explains how, fuelled by original and unorthodox thinking, war and technological invention, the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century ...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Like New