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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2018 |
| Authors: |
Ayesha Ramachandran
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-59887-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-226-59887-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226598871 |
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