Wisdom of the World The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought

Name: Wisdom of the World The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought
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ISBN: 9780226070773

ISBN-10: 0226070778

ISBN-13: 9780226070773

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rï¿½mi Brague, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Rï¿½mi Brague

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Brague traces the way in which universal wisdom has been interpreted over the centuries, from Ancient Egypt to the modern era. This work demonstrates how modernity has stripped the universe of its sacred wisdom, transforming it into an ethically indifferent entity.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.



Preface


Translator's Note


Introduction



Setting the Stage



Prehistory: A Pre-Cosmic Wisdom



The Birth of the Cosmos in Greece



Four Models



Socrates' Revolution; Plato's Restoration



The Other Greece: The Atomists



Other than Greece: The Scriptures



The Other Other: Gnosticism



The Medieval Model



Marginal Models



The Standard Vision of the World



An Ethical Cosmos



A Cosmological Ethics



Abrahamic Excess



The New World



The End of a World



An Impossible Imitation



The Lost World


Notes


Bibliography


Index