Oct 14, 2013
If ever a book seemed to design to merge the "two cultures" of
science and the humanities, it would be molecular biologist Sean B.
Carroll's newest work, Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher,
and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel
Prize. Nominally the story of the friendship between biologist
Jacques Monod and philosopher Albert Camus, the book is also a
history of World War II from the French perspective, as well as an
exploration of the work and ideas of both men who were so
profoundly affected by the war. Coming out of one of the most
dismal periods in living memory, the humanism that both of these
men embodied pushed them both to accomplishments deemed to be among
the highest of our species. This Sunday, Carroll will join us on
Atheists Talk to tell us about the book and what prompted him to
spend the years required to research and write a book of this
scope.