Curiosity - Couverture rigide

Manguel, Alberto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300184786 ISBN 13 : 9780300184785

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question 'Why?' has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask 'Why?' Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor, and critic, but would rather define himself as a reader. Born in Buenos Aires, he has since resided in Israel, Argentina, Europe, the South Pacific, and Canada. Today he divides his time between Canada and a small village in France, surrounded by more than 30,000 volumes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300184786
• ISBN 13: 9780300184785
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
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• Personne responsable: non disponible