The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Maleuvre, Didier

The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520267435)

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The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Maleuvre, Didier

The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing

$36.95
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Maleuvre, Didier

The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing

$36.95
Format: Hardcover
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What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits--of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder--the urge to know beyond the conceivable--is itself the engine of culture.

Author: Didier Maleuvre
ISBN-10: 0520267435
ISBN-13: 9780520267435
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.38w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011
By Didier Maleuvre
By Didier Maleuvre
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Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence and Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art.

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