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LEADER: 02183cam a2200313 i 4500
001 2014034697
003 DLC
005 20150604082125.0
008 141022s2015 ctua b 001 0deng
010 $a 2014034697
020 $a9780300184785 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR9199.3.M34845$bC87 2015
082 00 $a814/.54$aB$223
084 $aLIT007000$aBIO007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aManguel, Alberto.
245 10 $aCuriosity /$cAlberto Manguel.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2015.
300 $a377 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 329-361) and index.
600 10 $aManguel, Alberto$xBooks and reading.
650 0 $aLiterature$xAppreciation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh