Passage to Cosmos

Name: Passage to Cosmos
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226871837
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Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Szerző: Laura Dassow Walls

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press

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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual o...

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Szerző

Laura Dassow Walls

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2011

oldal

424

EAN

9780226871837

ISBN

0226871835

Enbook ID

04550321

Kiadó

The University of Chicago Press

Súly

654

Méretek

230 x 154 x 28

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Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Laura Dassow Walls here traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people - and envisioned a new cosmopolitanism that would link ideas, disciplines, and nations into a global web of knowledge and cultures. In reclaiming Humboldt's transcultural and transdisciplinary project, Walls situates America in a lively and contested field of ideas, actions, and interests, and reaches beyond to a new worldview that integrates the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities.

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