Figuring
"Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine bio...
| Main Author: | Popova, Maria (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Only the dreamer wakes
- To find dismooned among the stardust
- What is lost and what is gained
- Of the infinite in the finite
- To figure and transfigure
- The much that calls for more
- To brave the light of the world
- That which exhausts and exalts
- Merely the beautiful
- Divided, indivisible
- Between sinew and spirit
- Between art and life
- The banality of survival
- Shadowing the light of immortality
- To gaze and turn away
- From romance to reason
- From terror to transcendence
- Unmastering
- The heart's circumference
- Bound by neither mind nor matter
- In the darkness of being
- Searching for totality
- Into the unfathomed
- Where splendor dwells
- To live and to vanish
- Between the scale of atoms and the scale of worlds
- Between the time of monarchs and the time of stars
- Tracing the thread of being
- From shoreless seeds to stardust.