Knjiga znanja : razgovori s velikim umovima našega vremena

Knjiga znanja : razgovori s velikim umovima našega vremena

Constantin von Barloewen

How fortunate that today we have access to the most important recordings of conversations with André Gide, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman...

Thus, the idea of ​​an intercultural library emerged that would preserve conversations with the great minds of our era for future generations, according to German anthropologist and cultural scientist Constantin von Barloewen, the author of this Babylonian project called the Book of Knowledge, which took almost ten years to complete. Adonis, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Erwin Chargaff, Régis Debray, Carlos Fuentes, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Samuel Huntington, Philip Johnson, Leszek Kolakowski, Julia Kristeva, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Federico Mayor, Yehudi Menuhin, Czeslaw Milosz, Oscar Niemeyer, Amos Oz, Raimon Panikkar, Cardinal Paul Poupard, Ilya Prigogine, Arthur Schlesinger, Michel Serres, Wole Soyinka, Edward Teller, Tu Weiming, Paul Virilio and Elie Wiesel create within these covers a polylogue, a polyphonic multicultural dialogue in which thoughts on the Quran, architecture, the United Nations, Einstein, Auschwitz, DNA, Don Quixote, cyberspace, Confucianism, the hydrogen bomb, poetry, Darwin, Third World countries, feminism, GMO food, utopia...

Original title
Le livre des savoirs
Translation
Tajana Pavić, Ela Agotić, Vanda Mikšić
Editor
Branko Čegec
Dimensions
21.5 x 13.5 cm
Pages
618
Publisher
MeandarMedia, Zagreb, 2009.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: Croatian.

One copy is available

Condition:Used, excellent condition
 

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