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IN SEARCH OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE
LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MOST INQUIRING MIND
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A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodo xia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradiction s of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing hi s extrao...Status: Available for online purchase in 10-15 days
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DetailsNORTON y COMPANY
2015
336 Pages
Format: Tela
ISBN: 9780393241648
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
