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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls Details

Alexander von Humboldt, the explorer, the world, the writer and the human, was the most famous thinker of an era that began with Napoleon and ended in Darwin. With Cosmos,…

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Alexander von Humboldt, the explorer, the world, the writer and the human, was the most famous thinker of an era that began with Napoleon and ended in Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt presented to the world his vision of man and nature as integrated texts for everyone.

In this, Humboldt adopted the idea that while the world of nature exists regardless of human purpose, its beauty and system, that is, its complete idea, are human achievements: the universe comes into being in the dance of the world, mind, subject, matter, science and poetry. Laura Dassault Wells follows Humboldt's ideas about Cosmos for his journey to the Americas in 1799, where for the first time he witnessed the diversity of nature and the peoples of the world - and envisioned a new global presence linking ideas, disciplines and nations to the world of knowledge and cultures.

In restoring the Humboldt project across cultures and across pluralism, Walls places America in the realm of competing, vibrant ideas and actions, reaching beyond the new global outlook that integrates natural, social, arts and humanities.



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