Arthur Herman

Broschiertes Buch

The Cave and the Light

Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Beschreibung

A history of the influential rivalry between Plato and Aristotle traces the Western world's ongoing battle of ideas to their competing philosophies, demonstrating how their contrasting views on everything from religion and government to science and technology became the twin fountainheads of Western culture.

Autor

Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of Freedom’s Forge, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Idea of Decline in Western History, To Rule the Waves, and Gandhi & Churchill, which was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Herman taught the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian’s Campus on the Mall, and he has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, George Mason University, and The University of the South at Sewanee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780553385663
• ISBN-10: 0553385666
• Artikelnr.: 39865350