Boorstin daniel j random house (4 risultati)

Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Third Printing. 298 Pages Indexed. Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here? In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators, Daniel J Boorstin first told bril1iantly how we discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to the great figures in history who sought meaning and purpose in our existence. Boorstin says our Western culture has seen three grand epics of Seeking. First there was the heroic way of prophets and philosophers --- men like Moses or Job or Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as wel1 as those in the communities of the early church universities and the Protestant Reformation --- seeking salvation or truth from the god above or the reason within each of us. Then came an age of communal seeking, with people like Thucydides and Thomas More and Machiavelli and Voltaire pursuing civilization and the liberal spirit. Final1y, there was an age of the social sciences, when man seemed ruled by the forces of history. Here are the absorbing stories of exceptional men such as Marx, Spengler, and Toynbee, Carlyle and Emerson, and Malraux, Bergson, and Einstein. These great thinkers still have the power to speak to us, not always so much for their answers as for their way of asking the questions that never cease either to intrigue or to obsess us. In this impressive climax to a monumental trilogy, Daniel J. Boorstin once again shows that his ability to present challenging ideas, coupled with sharp portraits of great writers and thinkers, remains unparal1eled. Boorstin's unexcelled intellectual career began at an extraordinarily high level fifty years ago and has steadily ascended ever since. It is too soon to say that it has reached its apogee with The Seekers. However, this completion of a trilogy on humanity's quest for understanding confirms Boorstin's rank as one of the giants of twentieth-century American scholarship. Contents In Three Books: An Ancient Heritage, Communal Search, and Paths to the Future. Further Divided into Eight Parts: The Way of Prophets a Highter Authority, The Way of Philosophers A Wondrous Instrument Within, The Christian Way Experiments in Community, Ways of Discovery in Search fo Experience, The Liberal Way, The Momentum of History Ways of Social Science, Sanctuaries of Doubt, and A World in Process The Meaning in the Seeking.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. trade paperback in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 298pp. Pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing. 298 pp.