The wisdom of the world
Subtitle: the human experience of the universe in Western thought
By: Rémi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Cosmology -- History; Ethics -- History
Work titles: Sagesse du monde.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index
Table of contents: title: Prehistory : a pre-cosmic wisdom; title: The birth of the cosmos in Greece; title: Socrates' revolution, Plato's restoration; title: The other Greece : the atomists; title: Other than Greece : the Scriptures; title: The other other : gnosticism; title: Marginal models; title: The standard vision of the world; title: An ethical cosmos; title: A cosmological ethics; title: Abrahamic excess; title: The end of a world; title: An impossible imitation; title: The lost world