A curiosity of doubts / T. L. Uglow
- Bib ID:
- 7340554
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Uglow, T. L, author
- Description:
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- [Melbourne, Victoria] : Penguin Books, 2016
- ©2016
- 58 pages ; 18 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780143782520 (paperback)
- Series:
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- Curiosity lecture series.
- Penguin specials.
- Summary:
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"While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence in their beliefs. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns, and when we accept doubt we are more creative and generous, more human. Self-doubt is the indubitable baddie of many aphorisms, but what would life without doubt look like? TL Uglow looks at how writers across the ages have tackled the indecision and uncertainty in the engine room of humankind' -- back cover.
- Notes:
- Lecture given at the Sydney Writers Festival.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sydney Writers' Festival
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1992 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1922
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1889
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