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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.

The Discoverers
The Seekers
The Creators

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    The Creators

    • 832bladzijden
    • 30 uur lezen
    4,2(2385)Tarief

    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.  Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention.  In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great architecture and philosophy) is created, but where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored societies from Vedic India to the twentieth-century United States.

    The Creators
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    The Discoverers

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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 Discoverers
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    The Seekers

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen
    4,0(172)Tarief

    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.

    The Seekers