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  • The great humanist experiment in living
  • By: Sarah Bakewell
  • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
  • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)
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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café brings us a celebration of 700 years of human endeavour and achievement, in which dozens of philosophers, scientists, classicists, architects, educationalists and others explore the art of being human

Humanly Possible is a wide-ranging, personal, thought-provoking and entertaining journey through the battle of ideas over some 700 years of history—mostly, but not exclusively, in Europe. Through a mixture of biography and philosophy, Bakewell seeks to understand what humanism is, why it has continued to flourish despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, tyrants and cultural pessimists of all kinds, and exactly why we should value and defend it in the 21st century.
©2023 Sarah Bakewell (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Philosophers History Consciousness & Thought Movements Philosophy
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Excellent - twice over

The team from heaven: a brilliant author and a brilliant narrator. Audible at its best.

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Quite brilliant

Entertaining, engaging and profound. Provides grounds for optimism and encouragement to engage with anti-humanists

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Amazing

As with all Sarah Bakewell’s book that I’ve read to date, this is another masterpiece. The narration is as good as it gets also.

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