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"Bidding someone forth, conjuring a new person from a couple of cells, is an act of tremendous magnitude, one whose meaning is perhaps too great and abstract to grasp or articulate with any precision. . . . This, in the end, is Van der Lugt’s request of us: to pose the question of begetting to ourselves, and to answer it for only ourselves."---Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic
"Bidding someone forth, conjuring a new person from a couple of cells, is an act of tremendous magnitude, one whose meaning is perhaps too great and abstract to grasp or articulate with any precision. . . . This, in the end, is Van der Lugt’s request of us: to pose the question of begetting to ourselves, and to answer it for only ourselves."---Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic
"[Van der Lugt’s] contagious intellectual curiosity—and willingness to make room for unanswered questions—will keep readers glued to the page. It’s an ambitious look at some of life’s most foundational questions."
"A highly thought-provoking and informative read. . . .A must-read for anyone."---Ilina Jha, Redbrick Culture
Mara van der Lugt is lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where she specializes in early modern intellectual history and philosophy. She is the author of Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering (Princeton) and Bayle, Jurieu, and the “Dictionnaire Historique et Critique.”
"Bidding someone forth, conjuring a new person from a couple of cells, is an act of tremendous magnitude, one whose meaning is perhaps too great and abstract to grasp or articulate with any precision. . . . This, in the end, is Van der Lugt’s request of us: to pose the question of begetting to ourselves, and to answer it for only ourselves."---Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic
"[Van der Lugt’s] contagious intellectual curiosity—and willingness to make room for unanswered questions—will keep readers glued to the page. It’s an ambitious look at some of life’s most foundational questions."
"A highly thought-provoking and informative read. . . .A must-read for anyone."---Ilina Jha, Redbrick Culture
Mara van der Lugt is lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where she specializes in early modern intellectual history and philosophy. She is the author of Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering (Princeton) and Bayle, Jurieu, and the “Dictionnaire Historique et Critique.”