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Where shall wisdom be found? /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, [2004]
Subjects:
Wisdom in literature.
Wisdom literature > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The power of wisdom
  • The Hebrews: Job and Ecclesiastes
  • The Greeks: Plato's contest with Homer
  • Cervantes and Shakespeare
  • The greatest ideas are the greatest events
  • Montaigne and Francis Bacon
  • Samuel Johnson and Goethe
  • Emerson and Nietzsche
  • Freud and Proust
  • Christian wisdom
  • The gospel of Thomas
  • Saint Augustine and reading
  • Coda: nemesis and wisdom.