[Pre-Read] Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible [2023] 1st/3. Pls read Chapters 1-3

Meetup 1 of 3 of our discussion of the final text in this series. We end with a current title by a female British philosopher - only the third such gendered author in the four years of our project. Sarah Bakewell offers a delectable intellectual history of a secular adventure in Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope.

See the WSJ review from March 2023 by Dominic Green
Humanly Possible 2023 Women's Day Lecture by Sarah Bakewell (81')

How we will discuss Humanly Possible:
Markup your text of the assignment with questions, comments, counterpoints, etc. We will solicit your remarks on Humanly Possible sequentially. Our goal is to benefit from our discussions of the whole of Humanly Possible over three sessions during Oct-Nov 2023.

Schedule of readings (please read and annotate your text):
Oct 22, 2023: Bakewell, Humanly Possible [2023] 1/3 - Ch 1-3
Nov 5, 2023: Bakewell, Humanly Possible [2023] 2/3 - Ch 4-8
Nov 19, 2023: Bakewell, Humanly Possible [2023] 3/3 - Ch 9-12

Edition (libraries have many copies, ebook and physical):
Humanly Possible: 700 years of Humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope. Sarah Bakewell. Penguin Press, 2023. [ISBN: 978073522337] Used: $13+
Kindle edition: 9781473548138

Join us online via Zoom.
After you RSVP, the link will be available.

Any attendees who have not read the text will be invited to pose questions via the Zoom Chat.

Many Videos on this author and her new book can be found on YouTube. View several and report back your favorites.

Our 2023 Schedule (subject to change):
Oct-Nov 2024: Bakewell, Humanly Possible [2023] 3 sessions

Our 2024 Schedule (subject to change):
A selection of the most influential non-fiction works of the past 3000 years.

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