Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story

by Lydia Goehr

A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas

Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197572448
• ISBN13: 9780197572443
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"