Author: Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible” explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.
Bakewell brings together extraordinary humanists across history as she explores their immense variety: Some sought to promote scientific and rationalist ideas, others put more emphasis on moral living, and still others were concerned with the cultural and literary studies known as “the humanities.”
“Humanly Possible” asks not only what brings all these aspects of humanism together but why it has such enduring power, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, and tyrants.
