The Seekers : The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World - Daniel J. Boorstin

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The Seekers

The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

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Paperback | 26 October 1999 | Edition Number 1

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A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?"
Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning.
Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.

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"Impressive. . . . Boorstin reminds us what intellectual history on the grand scale looks like." --The New York Times Book Review "Unexcelled. . . . [It] confirms Boorstin's rank as one of the giants of twentieth-century American scholarship." --George F. Will

"Delivered with . . . skill, unalloyed admiration, and a keen eye for detail." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

"An admirable volume, thoroughly researched and beautifully arranged." --Washington Times

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A Personal Note to the Reader
An Ancient Heritage
The Way of Prophets: A Higher Authority
From Seer to Prophet: Moses' Test of Obedience	p. 5
A Covenanting God: Isaiah's Test of Faith	p. 8
Struggles of the Believer: Job	p. 11
A World Self-Explained: Evil in the East	p. 14
The Way of Philosophers: A Wondrous Instrument Within
Socrates' Discovery of Ignorance	p. 21
The Life in the Spoken Word	p. 33
Plato's Other-World of Ideas	p. 37
Paths to Utopia: Virtues Writ Large	p. 43
Aristotle: An Outsider in Athens	p. 47
On Paths of Common Sense	p. 51
Aristotle's God for a Changeful World	p. 57
The Christian Way: Experiments in Community
Fellowship of the Faithful: The Church	p. 63
Islands of Faith: Monasteries	p. 71
The Way of Disputation: Universities	p. 81
Varieties of the Protestant Way: Erasmus, Luther, Calvin	p. 91
Communal Search
Ways of Discovery: In Search of Experience
The Legacy of Homer: Myth and the Heroic Past	p. 107
Herodotus and the Birth of History	p. 111
Thucydides Creates a Political Science	p. 119
From Myth to Literature: Virgil	p. 123
Thomas More's New Paths to Utopia	p. 129
Francis Bacon's Vision of Old Idols and New Dominions	p. 132
From the Soul to the Self: Descartes's Island Within	p. 139
The Liberal Way
Machiavelli's Reach for a Nation	p. 149
John Locke Defines the Limits of Knowledge and of Government	p. 153
Voltaire's Summons to Civilization	p. 160
Rousseau Seeks Escape	p. 167
Jefferson's American Quest	p. 171
Hegel's Turn to "The Divine Idea on Earth"	p. 174
Paths to the Future
The Momentum of History: Ways of Social Science
A Gospel and a Science of Progress: Condorcet to Comte	p. 183
Karl Marx's Pursuit of Destiny	p. 190
From Nations to Cultures: Spengler and Toynbee	p. 194
A World in Revolution?	p. 201
Sanctuaries of Doubt
"All History Is Biography": Carlyle and Emerson	p. 207
Kierkegaard Turns from History to Existence	p. 213
From Truth to Streams of Consciousness with William James	p. 218
The Solace and Wonder of Diversity	p. 221
The Literature of Bewilderment	p. 228
A World in Process: The Meaning in the Seeking
Acton's "Madonna of the Future"	p. 235
Malraux's Charms of Anti-Destiny	p. 240
Rediscovering Time: Bergson's Creative Evolution	p. 245
Defining the Mystery: Einstein's Search for Unity	p. 250
Some Reference Notes	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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