Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World (Vintage) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Seekers In this epic, intellectual adventure story, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Moses, Sophocles, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Marx, Einstein, and others, as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged humanity.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 01 March 2000
- Format: Paperback 365 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Philosophy | History Of Western Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780375704758 ISBN 10: 0375704752
- Sales rank: 259,364
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Full description for Seekers
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.
