Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Humanly Possible

Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By
Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell
2023 • 401 pages

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