A History of Knowledge
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A History of Knowledge
| Full title | A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future |
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| Author | Charles Van Doren |
| Published | 1991 |
| Pages | 447 |
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Charles Van Doren — Mortimer Adler’s collaborator on How to Read a Book and the Great Books apparatus — compresses the story of Western knowing into one volume: what the ancients knew, what the Middle Ages kept and lost, how the scientific revolution changed the method of knowing, and where knowledge might go next. |
A History of Knowledge
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Pioneer Book, Provo — December 2017 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Pioneer Book, Provo — May 2024 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton — January 2026 (Books photo album)
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Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, the Himalaya Capital bibliography, in the section on the history of human civilization, where it serves as the one-volume orientation before the specialist histories. He lists the 1992 Ballantine printing.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Charles Van Doren — the author.
- Knowledge — the subject, taken as a historical object rather than a state.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.