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**New York Times Editors’ Choice
“A mighty, polymathic work, equally at home in all four corners of the globe.… It is a gift to be savored.” —Chris Vognar, Boston Globe
In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.**
What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the “know-how” of life, but the “know-why”—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.
From Nefertiti’s lost city to the plays of Wole Soyinka; from the theaters of ancient Greece to Chinese travel journals to Arab and Aztec libraries; from a South Asian statuette found at Pompeii to a time capsule left behind on the Moon, Puchner tells the gripping story of human achievement through our collective losses and rediscoveries, power plays and heroic journeys, innovations, imitations, and appropriations. More than a work of history, Culture is an archive of humanity’s most monumental junctures and a guidebook for the future of us humans as a creative species. Witty, erudite, and full of wonder, Puchner argues that the humanities are (and always have been) essential to the transmission of knowledge that drives the efforts of human civilization.
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Культура: История о нас, от пещерного искусства до K-Pop
Автор: Мартин Пачнер
Дата публикации: 7 февраля 2023 года
Пачнер рассказывает захватывающую историю человеческих достижений через наши коллективные потери и повторные открытия, игры власти и героические путешествия, инновации, подражания и присвоения.
Профессор и общественный интеллектуал Мартин Пачнер проводит нас в стремительный тур по поворотным моментам мировой истории, предоставляя глобальное введение в искусство и гуманитарные науки в одном увлекательном томе.
От затерянного города Нефертити и театров Древней Греции до китайских путевых журналов и арабских и ацтекских библиотек; от статуэтки из Южной Азии, найденной в Помпеях, до капсулы времени, оставленной на Луне.
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