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The Horizon
Didier Maleuvre
其他書名
A History of Our Infinite Longing
出版
University of California Press
, 2011-02-15
主題
Art / General
Art / History / General
History / General
History / World
History / Civilization
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / Political
Political Science / Geopolitics
Religion / History
ISBN
0520267435
9780520267435
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yqwlDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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“With this book Maleuvre does not so much intervene in contemporary debates in the humanities as challenges us to reconsider our investment in some of the existential questions that have long motivated humanistic inquiry. Whatever one’s position with respect to the questions Maleuvre raises, the reader is sure to be wonderstruck, provoked, or stirred at some point along the way.”—Paul A. Kottman, author of
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare
and
A Politics of the Scene
“Maleuvre’s approach is innovative and intriguing. The questions raised in each chapter are absolutely critical to general discussions on the meaning and potentiality of the arts in cultural, political, and social history.”—Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Religious Art & Cultural History, Georgetown University
"Maleuvre has a poetic touch. He offers new and surprising insights on artists, thinkers, and writers we have either read or heard of often, but now are invited to view from a new perspective. This work challenges readers to new dimensions of creative thought."—Clifford W. Edwards, author of
Mystery of The Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent Van Gogh
"Written by an academic but not just for other academics,
The Horizon
is a rollicking romp through four millennia of humanity's ever-continuing attempt to confront—through art, philosophy, literature and science—death, the universe, and everything. Intellectual history on steroids,
The Horizon
, stalwartly grand in its sweep and studded with steely insights each cultural step of the way, aims to liberate the reader's mind from the confines of the here and now and enables it to be what it was always meant to be: truly human."—Vijay Mascarenhas, Metro State College Denver