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The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought / Rémi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brague, Rémi, 1947-
- Standardized Title:
- Sagesse du monde. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology--History.
- Cosmology.
- History.
- Ethics--History.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 297 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- Prehistory : a pre-cosmic wisdom
- The birth of the cosmos in Greece
- Socrates' revolution, Plato's restoration
- The other Greece : the atomists
- Other than Greece : the Scriptures
- The other other : gnosticism
- Marginal models
- The standard vision of the world
- An ethical cosmos
- A cosmological ethics
- Abrahamic excess
- The end of a world
- An impossible imitation
- The lost world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226070751
- OCLC:
- 51544034
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