Traces the development of thought through historical movements and periods from 1500 to 1830.

Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel

History

Jacob Bronowski

Bruce, Mazlish

Europe

Harper-perennial

Heywood Hale Broun interviews Dr. Jacob Bronowski who provides a fascinating summary of the achievements of man that is an affirmation of Homo sapiens' adaptive nature. 1 audio cassette (56 min.). Product no. C40065

The Ascent of Man (Classics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

BBC Books

Science And Human Values

Science and Human Values

Faber&Faber

Bronowski was fascinated by William Blake for much of his life. His first book about him, "A Man Without a Mask", was published in 1944. In 1958 his famous Penguin selection of Blake's poems and letters was published. As further testimony to Bronowski's enthusiasm it should be noted that the final plate in the book of his great TV series "The Ascent of Man" is Blake's frontispiece to Songs of Experience. "William Blake and the Age of Revolution", first published in 1965, is, in some ways, a revised edition of "A Man Without a Mask", in others, a new book. In it Bronowski gives a stimulating interpretation of Blake's art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working. Like all of Bronowski's writings it dazzles with wide-ranging erudition, making this work far removed from conventional literary criticism.

William Blake and the age of revolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC

A new paperback edition of Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind, with a foreword by Richard Dawkins
Dr. Jacob Bronowksi's classic traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science," illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr. Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature. In this new paperback edition, The Ascent of Man inspires, influences, and informs as profoundly as ever.

(The Ascent Of Man) [By: Bronowski, Jacob] [Mar, 2011]

Historical Study & Educational Resources

El ascenso del hombre

Paidos

William Blake, 1757-1827a man without a mask

Isha Books

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