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Onde Encontrar A Sabedoria - Edicao de Bolso
Neste livro, o critico literario norte-americano Harold Bloom nos conduz pelo canone literario ocidental, desde a Biblia ate o seculo XX, examinando a maneira como a literatura pode trazer sabedoria as nossas vidas. Por meio de comparacoes dos Livros de Jo e Eclesiastes, Platao e Homero, Cervantes e Shakespeare, Montaigne e Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson e Goethe, Emerson e Nietzsche, Freud e Proust, e, finalmente, em reflexoes sobre o Evangelho de Tomas e a obra de Santo Agostinho, Bloom destila as diversas - e por vezes contrarias - formas de sapiencia que moldam o nosso pensar. 'Onde encontrar a sabedoria?' e uma reflexao profunda sobre os limites humanos, e sobre a preciosa contribuicao da literatura para nos ajudar a aceita-los.
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Published January 1, 2009
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Harold Bloom
1,611 books1,637 followersHarold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.
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July 5, 2019
Harold Bloom faz comparações entre "sábios", ou aqueles que ele assim considera, e trata de comparar a sabedoria da Bíblia judaica, Platão, Homero, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson Goethe, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud e Proust. Além de refletir sobre o Evangelho de Tomé e S. Agostinho. Para quem não sabe muita coisa sobre as obras dessas pessoas, é uma viagem e tanto. Ou um guia, dado que pessoas comuns como eu jamais vão ter o tempo e a paciência para ler todas as obras desses luminares. Pode parecer um pouco de preguiça, mas certamente é prático introduzir nossas leituras com um texto de Harold Bloom a nos orientar. Me agrada particularmente o estudo de Cervantes, que considero um gênio desde que finalmente me dediquei a ler Dom Quixote.
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