![]() ![]() That Greenblatt came across this book while in graduate school is a wonder, for it had been scourged, scorned or simply fallen from fashion from the start, making fugitive reappearances when the time was ripe, but more likely to fall prey to censorship and the bookworm, literally eaten to dust. It was a dangerous book and wildly at odds with the powers that be through many a time period. ![]() More than 2,000 years ago, Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things, which spoke of such things as the atomic structure of all that exists, of natural selection, the denial of an afterlife, the inherent sexuality of the universe, the cruelty of religion and the highest goal of human life being the enhancement of pleasure. Shakespeare’s Freedom, 2010, etc.) makes another intellectually fetching foray into the Renaissance-with digressions into antiquity and the recent past-in search of a root of modernity. ![]()
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