THE HORIZON: A HISTORY OF OUR INFINITE LONGING
Book ID/图书代码： 13520010B43477
English Summary/英文概要： What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits—of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder—the urge to know beyond the conceivable—is itself the engine of culture.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 什么是地平线?天与地在哪里相接?世界末日或开始的觉知?在这辉煌的、吸引人的、刺激的历史,Didier•Maleuvre探索人类经验和哲学,宗教,和艺术来理解我们的斗争和对生命的极限,知识,存在,和死亡。Maleuvre通过庞大的文化景观让我们快速体验体验每个停车场作为的尖端无限的旅程,他是否正在讨论的毕加索作品,哥特式建筑、贝多芬、或广义相对论。如果像亚里士多德所说,哲学起于疑惑,那么这个非凡的书告诉我们怎么想—知道超越想象的冲动—自己是本身的引擎文化。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“在书中Maleuvre并不那么多干预当代人文学科的辩论，作为挑战我们重新考虑我们的投资的一些存在问题,而这些问题一直激励人文调查。不管一个人怎样回应Maleuvre提出的问题,读者肯定会大吃一惊的,或被激怒,或在某停止一时刻。“——保罗•A•Kottman,《莎士比亚悲剧条件和政治的场景》一书的作者
“Maleuvre的方法是创新的和有趣的。在每一章提出的问题在文化、政治和社会的历史中的一般讨论意义和潜力的艺术是绝对重要的“——Diane.Apostolos-Cappadona,宗教艺术和文化历史,乔治敦大学
“Maleuvre有一个充满诗意触觉。他提供了我们曾经听到过的艺术家、思想家和作家新的和令人惊讶的真知灼见,但现在从一个新的视角解读。这项工作挑战读者的创造性思维的新维度。“——克利福德•w•爱德华兹，《神秘的夜晚咖啡屋:隐藏的关键的文森特•梵高的灵性》一书的作者。
“由一个学者但不是为了其他学者所写的作品,《地平线》是一个四千年的人类的永无休止的尝试，通过艺术、哲学、文学和科学死亡,宇宙,以及一切的喧闹的整合。知识历史类固醇,《地平线》,每个文化发展的路上则会坚定宏伟扫描和镶有钢铁般的见解,旨在解放读者的心灵，超出从此时此地的限制，并将其还原为它本来就如此的面目：真正的人类。“——维贾伊Mascarenhas,Metro State College Denver
“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
About the Author/作者介绍： Didier•Maleuvre是圣芭芭拉加州大学比较文学教授。他是作者的《宗教的现实:探讨自我、艺术和超越》和《博物馆的记忆:历史、技术、艺术》的作者。Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence and Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art.
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