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The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Robert Van Dusen
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1971
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Robert Van Dusen and has been published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the centennial commemorating the death of Alexander von Humboldt will be observed in 1959, it is appropriate that his literary achievements, heretofore scarcely studied, should now be critically examined and interpreted. The author undertakes to analyze his writings for their literary value and the particular intellectual milieu in which they were written.
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Robert LaBranche Van Dusen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt written by Robert LaBranche Van Dusen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt By Robert Van Dusen
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Author : ROBERT DUSEN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt By Robert Van Dusen written by ROBERT DUSEN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
The Literary Ambitions And Achievements Of Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : Robert Van Dusen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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A Longing For Wide And Unknown Things
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Author : Maren Meinhardt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
A Longing For Wide And Unknown Things written by Maren Meinhardt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the world, he did not quite reach the top; he established the existence of the Casiquiare canal, between the great water systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon, but this had been well known to local people; and his magisterial work, Cosmos, was left unfinished. This was no coincidence. Humboldt's pursuit of an all-encompassing, immersive approach to science was a way of finding limits: of nature and of the scientist's own self. A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things portrays a scientific life lived in the era of German Romanticism - a time of radical change, where the focus on the individual placed a new value on feeling, and the pursuit of personal desires. As Humboldt himself admitted, he 'would have sailed to the remotest South Seas, even if it hadn't fulfilled any scientific purpose whatever'.
Alexander Von Humboldt
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Author : F. A. Schwarzenberg
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Alexander Von Humboldt written by F. A. Schwarzenberg and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
The Humboldt Current
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Author : Aaron Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007
The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Environmentalism categories.
Cornell University history and American studies professor Aaron Sachs offers a masterly intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science.
The Passage To Cosmos
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Author : Laura Dassow Walls
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-11-15
The Passage To Cosmos written by Laura Dassow Walls and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with History categories.
Humboldt offered the world a vision of humans & nature as integrated halves of a single whole. He espoused the idea that while the univerise of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty & order are human achievements. Laura Dassow Walls traces the emergence of this philosophy to Humboldt's 1799 journey to America.
Letters Of Alexander Von Humboldt Written Between The Years 1827 And 1858 To Varnhagen Von Ense
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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-07-27
Letters Of Alexander Von Humboldt Written Between The Years 1827 And 1858 To Varnhagen Von Ense written by Alexander von Humboldt and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Transatlantic Echoes
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Author : Rex Clark
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-04
Transatlantic Echoes written by Rex Clark and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and García Márquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays, and even comics—many for the first time in English. The selection covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America, the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East, and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative literature.