The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the Universe in Western thought / Rémi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 297 p. ; 24 cm
Note:
Tit. orig.: La sagesse du monde : histoire de l'expérience humaine de l'Univers
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Translator's note. Introduction. Pt. 1. Setting the stage: 1. Prehistory: a pre-cosmic wisdom 2. The birth of the cosmos in Greece. Pt. 2. Four models: 3. Socrate's revolution, Plato's restoration 4. The other Greece: the atomists 5. Other than Greece: the Scriptures 6. The other other: gnosticism. Pt. 3. The medieval model: 7. Marginal models 8. The standard vision of the World 9. An ethical cosmos 10. A cosmological ethics 11. Abrahamic excess. Pt. 4. The New World: 12. The end of a world 13. An impossible imitation 14. The lost world. Notes. Bibliography. Index
