The horizon : a history of our infinite longing /
Maleuvre, Didier.
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Permanence : Egypt, 2500 B.C.E. -- Astonishment : Mesopotamia, circa 1900 B.C.E. -- Enterprise : Aegean Sea, circa 725 B.C.E. -- Tremor : Northern Kingdom of Israel, 500 B.C.E. -- Exodus : the Desert of Moab, 450 B.C.E. -- Synthesis : the Hellenic Achipelago, 500 B.C.E. -- Closure : Athens, circa 400 B.C.E. -- Distance : Nicaea, 325 C.E. -- Trembling : Hippo, 410 -- Space : the northern forest, 1100 -- Perspective : Mount Ventoux, April 1336 -- Ambivalence : Florence, 1503 -- Mortuus sum : Bordeaux, 1574 -- Nothing : Regensburg, May 8, 1654 -- Night : Neuberg, November 10, 1619 -- Formless : Königsberg, 1780 -- Severance : Wetzlar, November 1772 -- Blue yonder : Tübingen, 1810 -- Eden : upstate New York, September 22, 1827 -- Flatness : Murnau, Bavaria, 1908 -- No exit : Buenos Aires, April 1941 -- Here : Woodstock, NY, August 29, 1952 -- Nowhere : the Moon, July 21, 1969, 3:58 a.m. BST.
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