My new book is about a place. And it’s about an idea: “liberalism.” Liberalism has many meanings, but in its classical sense it is a philosophy based on individual freedom. History has long taught that our modern sensibility comes from the eighteenth century Enlightenment. In recent decades, historians have seen the Dutch Enlightenment of the seventeenth century as the root of the wider Enlightenment. And at the center of this sits the city of Amsterdam. The city today is infamous for its permissiveness. But the sex-and-drugs sense of liberalism relates back to the wider, grander sense of the word. There is a connection between the city that spawned Spinoza and the city where John and Yoko came to hold their Bed-In for Peace.
ed the head wrote: ↑Mon 27th Mar 2017 12:30 am
Did I mention also available on Audio Book
just started reading Shorto's "trip report" (AKA Amsterdam)...
the library had an ebook versie available to check out.
others interested in this book might want to try that route at their local library's webpage...
proost
ed the head wrote: ↑Mon 27th Mar 2017 12:30 am
Did I mention also available on Audio Book
just started reading Shorto's "trip report" (AKA Amsterdam)...
the library had an ebook versie available to check out.
others interested in this book might want to try that route at their local library's webpage...
proost
Great idea.
Free is for me.
I once used a local library to obtain the book below.
When it came, it was a signed copy from the author.
In hindsight, I kind of regret not keeping it. https://books.google.com/books/about/Th ... 8EAQAAIAAJ
I bought a copy, the signed version hopefully still in circulation.
