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What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits - of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder - the urge to know beyond the conceivable - is itself the engine of culture.
Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One The Archaic Age 1. Permanence: Egypt, 2500 B.C.E. 2. Astonishment: Mesopotamia, circa 1900 B.C.E. 3. Enterprise: Aegean Sea, circa 725 B.C.E. 4. Tremor: Northern Kingdom of Israel, 500 B.C.E. Part Two The Philosophical Age 5. Exile: The Desert of Moab, 450 B.C.E. 6. Synthesis: The Hellenic Archipelago, 500 B.C.E. 7. Closure: Athens, circa 400 B.C.E. Part Three The Theological Age 8. Distance: Nicaea, 325 C.E. 9. Trembling: Hippo, 410 10. Space: The Northern Forest, 1100 11. Perspective: Mount Ventoux, April 1336 12. Ambivalence: Florence, 1503 Part Four The Scientific Age 13. Mortuus sum: Bordeaux, 1574 14. Nothing: Regensburg, May 8, 1654 15. Night: Neuberg, November 10, 1619 Part Five The Subjective Age 16. Formless: Konigsberg, 1780 17. Severance: Wetzlar, November 1772 18. Blue Yonder: Tubingen, 1810 19. Eden: Upstate New York, September 22, 1827 Part Six The Mathematical Age 20. Flatness: Murnau, Bavaria, 1908 21. No Exit: Buenos Aires, April 1941 22. Here: Woodstock, NY, August 29, 1952 23. Nowhere: The Moon, July 21, 1969, 3:58 A.M. BST Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
