Book Club: When We Cease to Understand the World
Join us for the second Book Club of Hilary Term!At the border of fiction and non-fiction, When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, is about great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: their troubled minds grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. We will discuss the book on 11 March (Saturday), at The Queen’s College (OTR) at 1pm.
Join us for the second Book Club of Hilary Term!At the border of fiction and non-fiction, When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, is about great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: their troubled minds grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. We will discuss the book on 11 March (Saturday), at The Queen’s College (OTR) at 1pm.
Join us for the second Book Club of Hilary Term!At the border of fiction and non-fiction, When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, is about great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: their troubled minds grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. We will discuss the book on 11 March (Saturday), at The Queen’s College (OTR) at 1pm.