'The Swerve': When an Ancient Text Reaches Out & Touches Us
In his new book, "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," author Stephen Greenblatt unearths the tale of a book collector whose discovery of poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" helped change the direction of human thought. Jeffrey Brown and Greenblatt discuss the book and its many cross-generational messages.
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Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Swerve Revisited: How the World Became Modern’
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Shakespeare's Advice to People in Love | Harvard's Stephen Greenblatt
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Lucretius, On The Nature of Things | Death As Nothing To Us | Philosophy Core Concepts
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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
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The French Do Not Care About Work
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Scott Pelley on Bari Weiss and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’ | The Interview
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Why Plot Is Overrated with Lee Child | Meet your Maestro | BBC Maestro
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19. The New Historicism
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Stephen Greenblatt, Tom Holland | The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began and World Became Modern
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Nothing Comes From Nothing: Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and New Historicism
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Bishop Barron on Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"
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Stephen Greenblatt - The Swerve - Part 1
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Death is Nothing to Us- Why Our Alumni Want to Read Lucretius: Dr. Steve Baldner at TEDxBishopsU
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Stephen Greenblatt, "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve"
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Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing — Steven Pinker
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Your Daily Penguin: Lucretius!
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"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," Stephen Greenblatt, The University of Kansas
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Nothing comes from nothing: Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and New Historicism
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Epicureanism, ataraxia and the "swerve"
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