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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
392
Utgivningsdatum
2016-03-22
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
51 b, w illus
Illustrationer
51 b-w illus.
Dimensioner
226 x 147 x 20 mm
Vikt
499 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300219807

Curiosity

av Alberto Manguel
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-03-22
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An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question Why? has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguels most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask Why? Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
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Curiosity is a meditation on what is important it is best taken as if part of a long, fascinating conversation with an individual whose erudition and humanity leave one largely content to listen while nursing ones own, parallel apprehensions. - Stoddard Martin, Jewish Chronicle -- Stoddard Martin * Jewish Chronicle *

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Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor, and critic. Born in Buenos Aires, he has since resided in Israel, Argentina, Europe, the South Pacific, and Canada. He now lives in New York.

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