Ayesha Ramachandran is assistant professor of comparative literature at Yale University.
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality?
The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: Cartography 早期現代 思想史 啓濛 曆史 world GlobalHistory EarlyModernEurope
看瞭一點點。以為是曆史書,但其實是思想或者概念書,對墨卡托還感興趣,但是濛田散文這種很無感。(另,library genesis上有pdf版
評分看瞭一點點。以為是曆史書,但其實是思想或者概念書,對墨卡托還感興趣,但是濛田散文這種很無感。(另,library genesis上有pdf版
評分看瞭一點點。以為是曆史書,但其實是思想或者概念書,對墨卡托還感興趣,但是濛田散文這種很無感。(另,library genesis上有pdf版
評分It's really worthwhile reading,but Ideas are not always clearly expressed.
評分It's really worthwhile reading,but Ideas are not always clearly expressed.
The Worldmakers 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載