Humanly Possible

The great humanist experiment in living

Read by: Antonia Beamish

Author: Sarah Bakewell

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Digital Audiobook

Duration
14:27.10

Published: 30th March 2023

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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Cafe brings us a celebration of 700 years of human endeavour and achievement, in which dozens of philosophers, scientists, classicists, architects, educationalists and others explore the art of being human

Humanly Possible is a wide-ranging, personal, thought-provoking and entertaining journey through the battle of ideas over some 700 years of history - mostly, but not exclusively, in Europe. Through a mixture of biography and philosophy, Bakewell seeks to understand what humanism is, why it has continued to flourish despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, tyrants and cultural pessimists of all kinds, and exactly why we should value and defend it in the 21st century.