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A Guidebook to Our Culture |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Andrew Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,417 Words, 15,353 Characters |
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THE SEEKERS
The Story of Man's Continuing Quest
to Understand His World
Daniel J. Boorstin
New York: Random House, 1998
259 pp., $25.95
To take the measure of Western civilization and its diverse intellectual life in one slim volume is no easy task. Daniel J. Boorstin, Pulitzer Prize--winning historian and author of the celebrated trilogy The Americans, has applied his encyclopedic mind to surveying the philosophers and thinkers who have given our world its contours of meaning. The Seekers is the third volume of a trilogy that includes The Discoverers, on the history of science; and The Creators, on the history of art, music, and literature. Together they provide us with a rare survey of the panoply of Western civilization, a guidebook to the people and ideas that ...
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...religion and left foot of classical philosophy are connected to the ear of historicism and the hair of individual doubt. Other parts of the body remain unnoticed, for example where other seekers have enriched our lives through paths of introspection and inner awareness. Like the story of the blind man and the elephant, The Seekers only discerns a part of that complex and interconnected whole.
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