The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought /
Remi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- ix, 297 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.
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.