David Lowenthal

Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, stemming from David Lowenthal's inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, explores the Two Cultures quarrel's underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education, religion, genetics, race relations, heritage governance, and environmental policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781138625686
• ISBN-10: 113862568X
• Artikelnr.: 56875736

Autorenporträt

David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, was an American historian and geographer. He was a renowned authority on heritage and conservation history, who died just days after he received the proofs. In 2016 he received the British Academy Medal for The Past Is a Foreign Country- Revisited. The medal honors "a landmark academic achievement which has transformed understanding in the humanities and social sciences" in a book exploring "the manifold ways in which history engages, illuminates and deceives us."

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Environmental Humanities, the Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, and
David Lowenthal. Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Marco Armiero
Introduction
1. Unifying Knowledge-Miracle or Mirage?
2. Man and Nature
3. Island Polymaths
4. Purity and Mixture
5. Heritage Universal and Divisive
6. Past into Present
Conclusion