Sarah Bekwell is a writer who specializes in writing about writers, adventurers and philosophers. Her latest book explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists all trying to understand what it means to be truly human. Sarah: Humanism is very hard to define because everybody has their own definition. It's the study of that cultural realm in which we live so much of our lives when we create art or explain things to one another.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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