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Curiosity

door Alberto Manguel

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"Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations"--… (meer)
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A characteristically thoughtful collection of essays, taking as their jumping off point sections of the Divine Comedy. Although tied together with this theme, the chapters are independent ruminations and thus can be read in any order.

Each chapter begins with an anecdote from his personal experience (the best part of each section), followed by free-ranging discourse on the chapter's primary theme: language, reasoning, identity, etc. Interesting, as is all Manguel's work, but it would have been better had it built cumulatively to a single point, instead of being a potpourri of tidbits and insights. ( )
1 stem dono421846 | Dec 9, 2020 |
Instinto humano, fundamental para a sobrevivência, a curiosidade foi combatida ao longo da História e continua a ser vista como pecado, não apenas pela religião, mas por aqueles que desejam manter o poder às custas da ignorância. Em “Uma história natural da curiosidade” (Companhia das Letras), o argentino naturalizado canadense (também já viveu em Israel, França e Itália) Alberto Manguel mostra como este impulso, que começa com a mania de perguntar “Por quê”, na infância, evoluiu através dos tempos.

Vivemos numa sociedade em que muita gente ainda crê que a curiosidade de Eva ao provar o fruto proibido pôs tudo a perder: se tivesse resistido à tentação, viveríamos no Paraíso e teríamos todas as curiosidades da Árvore do Conhecimento satisfeitas. Inclusive as que mais nos angustiam, do gênero “o que é o infinito”, “por que estamos aqui”, “o que é a verdade” e a principal de todas: “quem sou eu?”.

Numa estrutura que espelha a “Divina comédia", de Dante Alighieri,Manguel é guiado pelos mistérios da vida neste mundo e de como eles são formulados na linguagem. Com clareza e erudição, guia o leitor pelos abismos entre o saber intuitivo das epifanias e seu reflexo empobrecido nas palavras — meio que escolhemos como instrumentos de expressão predominante. ( )
1 stem ricalyr | Nov 2, 2020 |
Excellent essai/méditation/voyage. Exigeant et accessible. ( )
1 stem Nikoz | Nov 7, 2019 |
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"Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations"--

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