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- Articles
- Critique Littéraire
- The Next Decade - critiqué par Remi Maloney
- The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - critiqué par James McKeough
- The Big Short - critiqué par Marie-Michelle Dumas
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Age of Wonder
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Ascent of Money
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: Lords of Finance
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: Billions of Entrepreneurs
- Prix et reconnaissance
Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, London, Harper Press, 2008. pp., xxi, 554.
What an extraordinarily beautiful book this is, filled with insights and information, pulsating with energy and charged with hope for humanity. It is, above all, a profoundly optimistic book. It revels in the accomplishments of the past and celebrates human ingenuity and creativity. Holmes appears to have read everything related to his subject: original texts, unpublished sources and the massive secondary literature. This is a magisterial work which belongs on the shelf of all of those who want to understand the foundations of the modern world, above all the scientific achievements, and dangers, of the past two centuries. It can be read and reread with increasing pleasure and an expanded understanding of the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
