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Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley

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Description:Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was a professor of anthropology (a specialist in physical anthropology), formerly chairman of the department at the University of Pennsylvania, Provost of the University, Curator of Early Man at its museum, and the author of numerous scholarly articles and fourteen book—ten prose and four poetry (four of which were published posthumously)—reflections, both scholarly and personal, on subjects like evolution, the natural world, anthropology and archaeology, the history of science, and literature. But he became a professional scholar and academic only by chance. As his autobiographical writing reveal—and in sense all of his work is autobiographical—throughout his life he believed that he was always about to be snatched away from his ordinary, tame world into a “world of violence” far removed from the sober pursuits of the university life for which he felt only a dubious affinity. Eiseley came to intellectual ventures relatively late in life and in a roundabout way after a youth spent, in part, as a hobo during the Great Depression. His first book, The Immense Journey (1957), which launched his career as a literary naturalist, was not published until he was nearly fifty, and as a glance at a bibliography of his work will reveal, he maintained his career as a writer afterwards only with some difficulty, at times in the twenty years of his life that remained finding it impossible to publish at all. From 1960 to 1969 he did not produce a single book.That he ever came to write the kind of books that he did—which have been described as occupying a kind of no man’s land between literature and science—came about almost by accident. Commissioned to do an essay on evolution for a scholarly journal in the 1950s, Eiseley had completed his preparation when the journal backed out of the agreement. Although he was at the time suffering from temporary deafness, he nevertheless decided to attempt instead a “more literary venture” into the then out-of-fashion personal essay. The Immense Journey was the eventual result, and with it was born his experimentation with a form he liked to call the “concealed essay,” in which “personal anecdote was allowed to bring under observation thoughts of a more purely scientific nature . . . “ (All the Strange Hours 177). The essayist, Eiseley believed, unlike the painter, “sees as his own eye dictates” (with his “archaeological eye,” in Eiseley’s case, as a later chapter will show); “he peers out upon modern pictures and transposes them in some totemic ceremony” (All the Strange Hours 154-55).Faith in the Distance offers a comprehensive reading of all of Eiseley's work as simultaneously an autobiographer and and what I will call (after Daniel Dennett) "primate autobiography," as both phylogeny and ontogeny.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley. To get started finding Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was a professor of anthropology (a specialist in physical anthropology), formerly chairman of the department at the University of Pennsylvania, Provost of the University, Curator of Early Man at its museum, and the author of numerous scholarly articles and fourteen book—ten prose and four poetry (four of which were published posthumously)—reflections, both scholarly and personal, on subjects like evolution, the natural world, anthropology and archaeology, the history of science, and literature. But he became a professional scholar and academic only by chance. As his autobiographical writing reveal—and in sense all of his work is autobiographical—throughout his life he believed that he was always about to be snatched away from his ordinary, tame world into a “world of violence” far removed from the sober pursuits of the university life for which he felt only a dubious affinity. Eiseley came to intellectual ventures relatively late in life and in a roundabout way after a youth spent, in part, as a hobo during the Great Depression. His first book, The Immense Journey (1957), which launched his career as a literary naturalist, was not published until he was nearly fifty, and as a glance at a bibliography of his work will reveal, he maintained his career as a writer afterwards only with some difficulty, at times in the twenty years of his life that remained finding it impossible to publish at all. From 1960 to 1969 he did not produce a single book.That he ever came to write the kind of books that he did—which have been described as occupying a kind of no man’s land between literature and science—came about almost by accident. Commissioned to do an essay on evolution for a scholarly journal in the 1950s, Eiseley had completed his preparation when the journal backed out of the agreement. Although he was at the time suffering from temporary deafness, he nevertheless decided to attempt instead a “more literary venture” into the then out-of-fashion personal essay. The Immense Journey was the eventual result, and with it was born his experimentation with a form he liked to call the “concealed essay,” in which “personal anecdote was allowed to bring under observation thoughts of a more purely scientific nature . . . “ (All the Strange Hours 177). The essayist, Eiseley believed, unlike the painter, “sees as his own eye dictates” (with his “archaeological eye,” in Eiseley’s case, as a later chapter will show); “he peers out upon modern pictures and transposes them in some totemic ceremony” (All the Strange Hours 154-55).Faith in the Distance offers a comprehensive reading of all of Eiseley's work as simultaneously an autobiographer and and what I will call (after Daniel Dennett) "primate autobiography," as both phylogeny and ontogeny.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley. To get started finding Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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