Re: [xmca] "The Swerve" a new book reviewed on PBS today

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Marx places a lot of store in the concept of "swerve" too, which he 
ascribes to Epicurus.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/ch04.htm
For Marx, the swerve marked the difference between what came to be 
called "mechanical materialism" and what came to be called "dialectical 
materialism" (not Marx's terms, of course).
Andy

Larry Purss wrote:
> I thought this new book [the Swerve] on one author's assumption of how a
> lost book could change the world may be of interest to some on this site.
> This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction.
> Here is a review of the book in the Globe & Mail newspaper
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern-by-stephen-greenblatt/article2194842/
>
> Larry
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