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The horizon : a history of our infinite longing / Didier Maleuvre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maleuvre, Didier.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- History.
- Horizon--Social aspects--History.
- Horizon.
- Boundaries--Social aspects--History.
- Boundaries.
- Wonder--History.
- Wonder.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Boundaries--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Permanence : Egypt, 2500 B.C.E.
- Astonishment : Mesopotamia, circa 1900 B.C.E.
- Enterprise : Aegean Sea, circa 725 B.C.E.
- Tremor : Northern Kingdom of Israel, 500 B.C.E.
- Exodus : the Desert of Moab, 450 B.C.E.
- Synthesis : the Hellenic Achipelago, 500 B.C.E.
- Closure : Athens, circa 400 B.C.E.
- Distance : Nicaea, 325 C.E.
- Trembling : Hippo, 410
- Space : the northern forest, 1100
- Perspective : Mount Ventoux, April 1336
- Ambivalence : Florence, 1503
- Mortuus sum : Bordeaux, 1574
- Nothing : Regensburg, May 8, 1654
- Night : Neuberg, November 10, 1619
- Formless : Königsberg, 1780
- Severance : Wetzlar, November 1772
- Blue yonder : Tübingen, 1810
- Eden : upstate New York, September 22, 1827
- Flatness : Murnau, Bavaria, 1908
- No exit : Buenos Aires, April 1941
- Here : Woodstock, NY, August 29, 1952
- Nowhere : the Moon, July 21, 1969, 3:58 a.m. BST.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520267435
- 0520267435
- OCLC:
- 606760512
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