02738cam a2200337 4500 545318070 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620403457 1620403455 B017WOMLI0 Amazon 74d399cf-c0e5-43bb-8f2e-ab33d604a034 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2487816 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Grayling, A. C. The Age of Genius [Libby eBook] : The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2928kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3076kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><i>The Age of Genius</i> explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world.<br /> <br /> Grayling vividly reconstructs this unprecedented era and breathes new life into the major figures of the seventeenth century intelligentsia who span literature, music, science, art, and philosophy—Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Galileo, Rembrandt, Locke, Newton, Descartes, Vermeer, Hobbes, Milton, and Cervantes, among many more. During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.</p>. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Politics. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74d399cf-c0e5-43bb-8f2e-ab33d604a034&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74d399cf-c0e5-43bb-8f2e-ab33d604a034&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74d399cf-c0e5-43bb-8f2e-ab33d604a034&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)