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

Grayling, Professor A. C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747599424 ISBN 13 : 9780747599425

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747599424
• ISBN 13: 9780747599425
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie