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Heretics! - The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (Paperback, with French flaps)
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Heretics! - The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (Paperback, with French flaps)
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Loot Price R560
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An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of
the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the
exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged
authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even
death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and
help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and color
illustrations, Heretics! offers a unique introduction to the birth
of modern thought in comics form--smart, charming, and often funny.
These contentious and controversial philosophers--from Galileo and
Descartes to Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Newton--fundamentally
changed the way we look at the world, society, and ourselves,
overturning everything from the idea that the Earth is the center
of the cosmos to the notion that kings have a divine right to rule.
More devoted to reason than to faith, these thinkers defended
scandalous new views of nature, religion, politics, knowledge, and
the human mind. Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives,
and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows
them in their travels and exiles, the narrative describes their
meetings and clashes with each other--as well as their
confrontations with religious and royal authority. It recounts key
moments in the history of modern philosophy, including the burning
of Giordano Bruno for heresy, Galileo's house arrest for defending
Copernicanism, Descartes's proclaiming cogito ergo sum, Hobbes's
vision of the "nasty and brutish" state of nature, and Spinoza's
shocking Theological-Political Treatise. A brilliant account of one
of the most brilliant periods in philosophy, Heretics! is the story
of how a group of brave thinkers used reason and evidence to
triumph over the authority of religion, royalty, and antiquity.
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