The horizon
Subtitle: a history of our infinite longing
By: Didier Maleuvre
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780520267435
Subjects: Art; Religion; Philosophy; Boundaries; Historia; Civilization; Filosofi; Horizon; Wonder; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Permanence : Egypt, 2500 B.C.E.; title: Astonishment : Mesopotamia, circa 1900 B.C.E.; title: Enterprise : Aegean Sea, circa 725 B.C.E.; title: Tremor : Northern Kingdom of Israel, 500 B.C.E.; title: Exodus : the Desert of Moab, 450 B.C.E.; title: Synthesis : the Hellenic Achipelago, 500 B.C.E.; title: Closure : Athens, circa 400 B.C.E.; title: Distance : Nicaea, 325 C.E.; title: Trembling : Hippo, 410; title: Space : the northern forest, 1100; title: Perspective : Mount Ventoux, April 1336; title: Ambivalence : Florence, 1503; title: Mortuus sum : Bordeaux, 1574; title: Nothing : Regensburg, May 8, 1654; title: Night : Neuberg, November 10, 1619; title: Formless : Königsberg, 1780; title: Severance : Wetzlar, November 1772; title: Blue yonder : Tübingen, 1810; title: Eden : upstate New York, September 22, 1827; title: Flatness : Murnau, Bavaria, 1908; title: No exit : Buenos Aires, April 1941; title: Here : Woodstock, NY, August 29, 1952; title: Nowhere : the Moon, July 21, 1969, 3:58 a.m. BST.