Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age

by Rémi Brague

Book Overview

In his first book composed in English, R mi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268105707
• ISBN13: 9780268105709
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"