Under The Spell

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The answers to most questions are driven by the grand narratives that dominate human thought the world over. Without us even realising it. Narratives that emanate from the human need to navigate an overwhelming and contradictory world. By making stories to frame the chaos. By storytelling itself. In The Spell, David Buckham and Robyn Wilkinson set out to make sense of how we make sense. They explore the development of Western thinking from Ancient Greece via the Enlightenment through to the modern day, in particular our ongoing wrestle with the divine and the knowable. They home in on specific stories we have come to tell along the way, from Henry VIII to Lawrence of Arabia to Tarzan. From the Irish Troubles to Vietnam to famine in Ethiopia. From Malthus to Superman to Apocalypse Now.

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