Imagine the world’s most brilliant and charismatic people around one dinner table, the greatest philosophers, novelists, actors, scientists and political activists. The guests would talk until deep into the night, dreaming up a bold, new way of doing things, of thinking about the world and about society – a way we have come to call modernity.

Author Philipp Blom Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 9780297858188 EAN 9780297858188 Bic Code Cover Hardback