What?: Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History?
Jun 2011 · A&C Black
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96
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What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy-indeed, all of civilization-to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history? Or has he given us a really smart, impossibly amusing game of twenty questions? Kurlansky considers the work of Confucius, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, the Talmud, Charles de Gaulle, Virginia Woolf, and others, distilling the deep questions of life to their sparkling essence. What? supplies endless fodder for thoughtful conversation but also endless opportunity to ponder and be challenged by-and entertained by-these questions in refreshingly original ways. As Kurlansky says, In a world that seems devoid of absolute certainties, how can we make declarative statements? Without asking the questions, how will we ever get to the answers? With his striking black-and-white woodcut illustrations throughout, this handsome volume is a tour de force that packs a tremendous wallop in a deliciously compact package.
About the author
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt,
The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and The
Eastern Stars (forthcoming from Riverhead in April 2010), among many other books.
The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and The
Eastern Stars (forthcoming from Riverhead in April 2010), among many other books.
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