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Titre: The Passage to Cosmos Condition: Neuf Sous titres: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America Auteur: Laura Dassow Walls Format: Relié EAN: 9780226871820 ISBN: 9780226871820 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Genre: Home Garden & Pets Sujet: Science Nature & Math, Biography Date de publication: 2009-08-01 Description: Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Laura Dassow Walls here traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people - and envisioned a new cosmopolitanism that would link ideas, disciplines, and nations into a global web of knowledge and cultures. In reclaiming Humboldt's transcultural and transdisciplinary project, Walls situates America in a lively and contested field of ideas, actions, and interests, and reaches beyond to a new worldview that integrates the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Sujet: Anglais Pays/Région de fabrication: US Item Height: 24 Item Length: 16.00 Item Width: 3.00 Poids: 680g Année de publication: 2009 Information manquante?
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