The Swerve
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Swerve
| Full title | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
|---|---|
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 356 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Greenblatt’s account of Poggio Bracciolini’s 1417 recovery of Lucretius’s De rerum natura from a German monastery, and the argument that the poem’s atomism and refusal of an afterlife seeded the modern world. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies when he asked on X “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Republic of Letters — the portfolio idea this sits closest to: a book about book-hunters.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.