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Breve historia del saber

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Este monumental libro cubre todos los tipos de conocimiento ―científico, intelectual e histórico― desde el principio de la especie humana hasta el siglo XXI y más allá. Es la culminación de toda una vida dedicada al estudio. Apasionante y de lectura muy amena, Breve historia del saber examina las aportaciones individuales al conocimiento de las grandes mentes de la de Buda y Confucio a Cristo y Mahoma; de Tales, Demócrito y Aristóteles a Edison y Einstein; de Sófocles y Eurípides a Shakespeare y Beckett; de Sócrates a Nietzsche y Freud; de Cervantes a Goethe, Yeats, Kafka y Mann.

504 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2006

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Charles van Doren

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Charles Lincoln van Doren was an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.

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