The passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America
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Main Author: Walls, Laura Dassow (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue: Humboldt's bridge -- Confluences -- Passage to America, 1799-1804 -- Manifest destinies -- Interchapter: Finally shall come the poet -- "All are alike designed for freedom": Humboldt on race and slavery -- The community of Cosmos -- The face of planet America -- Epilogue: recalling Cosmos
Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt'
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 404 pages)
ISBN:0226871827
0226871843
9780226871820
9780226871844

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