In this companion volume to his bestseller The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Boorstin brings to life more than 3000 years of human artistic achievement. This immensely readable & engrossing book examines what people have added to the world: painting, sculpture, architecture, theology, philosophy, poetry, drama, music, film etc.
Kennis-trilogie Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de diepten van menselijke creativiteit en culturele evolutie door eeuwen en beschavingen heen. Het verkent cruciale momenten in de geschiedenis van kunst, wetenschap en denken, van oude culturen tot het moderne tijdperk. Lezers worden meegenomen op fascinerende reizen van ontdekking en innovatie die onze wereld hebben gevormd. Het is een boeiend verhaal over hoe mensen dachten, creëerden en hun stempel op de geschiedenis drukten.
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An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
The Seekers
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.