The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought / Remi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2003.Description: ix, 297 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226070751 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226070778 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Sagesse du monde. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD494 .B7313 2003
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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