The Book of Twos : The Power of Contrasts, Polarities, and Contradictions
Amato, Joseph Anthony
ISBN 10: 0944024661 ISBN 13: 9780944024669
Published by Ellis Press, The, 2015
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In fascinating detail, Amato explores how the concept of twos--contrasts, comparisons, polarities, dualities and contradictions--has been fundamental to human thought from infant development to national identities. In Amato's telling, two becomes, literally, who we are. His wide-ranging mind ranges across history, religion, art, philosophy, war, politics, and language. His book devotes significant space to essential figures who have considered those topics at length: Montaigne, William James, Isaiah Berlin. Here too are Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Dostoevsky, and Freud. Here too is language, especially analogy and metaphor, as used by poets, rhetoricians, politicians, and historians. Twos show us good, they show us evil. They lead to great art, they lead to atrocity. They lead from simple comparisons to complex civilizations. They lead to contemplative faith and ground-breaking science.
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Title: The Book of Twos : The Power of Contrasts, ...
Publisher: Ellis Press, The
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: first.