Стивен Гринблатт — новинки

Рассказ об Адаме и Еве скромно занимает около пятидесяти строк в Писании, однако он таит в себе поразительные парадоксы: мужчина и женщина, рожденные взрослыми и не испытывающими стыда от наготы, говорящий змей-искуситель, древо, плоды которого даруют познание добра и зла. Эта история, полная немыслимых сцен и событий, веками не давала покоя философам и мыслителям — ее анализировали, обсуждали и трактовали — буквально и аллегорически.

В этой книге Стивен Гринблатт — доктор философии и профессор гуманитарных наук — проводит читателя от первых древних историй о создании человека до всем известной дарвиновской теории происхождения видов. Этот путь проходит через мысли святого Августина, решившего трактовать каждую строку Писания буквально, и мастерские талантливых художников — от живописца Альбрехта Дюрера, создавшего знаменитую гравюру «Адам и Ева», до Джона Мильтона, написавшего «Потерянный рай».

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times
What is it about Adam and Eve’s story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?
The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires.
In a quest that begins at the dawn of time, Stephen Greenblatt takes us from ancient Babylonia to the forests of east Africa. We meet evolutionary biologists and fossilised ancestors; we grapple with morality and marriage in Milton’s Paradise Lost; and we decide if the Fall is the unvarnished truth or fictional allegory.

'Brilliant' Sunday Times
How does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?
For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer.
'Brilliant, timely' Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
'A scintillating book, uncannily illuminating about current politic

As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.

Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules—these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues—and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them—and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare’s work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.

He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas – that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion. These ideas fuelled the Renaissance, inspiring Botticelli, shaping the thoughts of Montaigne, Darwin and Einstein.

An innovative work of history by one of the world’s most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery, The Swerve details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Ренессанса могло бы и не существовать.
Не было бы ни шедевров Леонардо да Винчи и Микеланджело, ни блис­тательного политического цинизма Макиавелли, ни всей эпохи расцвета наук и искусств, времени создания гениальных произведений живописи, ли­тературы и философии. Не было бы, если бы однажды собиратель старинных рукописей Поджо Браччолини не натолкнулся в монастырской библиотеке на некий старин­ный манускрипт...
Так была обнаружена считавшаяся доселе утраченной поэма Лукреция О ПРИРОДЕ ВЕЩЕЙ, пролежавшая в забвении сотни лет. Рукопись проповедовала крайне "опасные" идеи гуманизма и материа­лизма, учила радоваться жизни, отрицала религиозное ханжество и мрако­бесие. Она повлияла на формирование мировоззрения Галилея и Фрейда. Томаса Джефферсона, Дарвина и Эйнштейна Возрождение поэмы из небытия изменило ход европейской истории. Но как это произошло?..

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting.

Here this baroque master’s two most enduring and admired works, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall, appear in a new edition that has been annotated and introduced by the distinguished scholars Ramie Targoff and Stephen Greenblatt (author of the best-selling Will in the World and the National Book Award–winning The Swerve). In Religio Medici Browne mulls over the relation between his medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, pondering the respective claims of science and religion, questions that are still very much alive today. The discovery of an ancient burial site in an English field prompted Browne to write Urne-Buriall, which is both an early anthropological examination of different practices of interment and a profound meditation on mortality. Its grave and exquisite music has resounded for generations.

Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book—the…

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