6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Lebanese-American scholar — Majid Khadduri Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS — Hoover Institution senior fellow — author of The Arab Predicament, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, and The Foreigner's Gift — one of the most intellectually distinguished Arab-American analysts of the Arab world.
Swiss-Canadian psychiatrist and historian — author of The Discovery of the Unconscious — who wrote the most comprehensive history of dynamic psychiatry from Mesmer through Freud, Jung, Adler, and Janet.
The ancient library of Alexandria — founded under Ptolemy I and expanded under Ptolemy II — which aimed to collect all the world's knowledge and which at its height housed hundreds of thousands of scrolls — whose gradual destruction became the symbol of civilization's fragility.
Greek elegiac poet and scholar from Cos — tutor to Ptolemy II Philadelphus — one of the founders of the Alexandrian school of poetry that combined erudite scholarship with refined verse, making him a model for Callimachus and Theocritus.
The multi-volume Cambridge History of China — the most comprehensive scholarly history of China in English — now comprising 15 volumes covering all periods of Chinese history from the Ch'in dynasty through the People's Republic.
Henri Ellenberger's 1970 magnum opus — tracing the history of dynamic psychiatry from Mesmer through Freud, Jung, Adler, and Janet — the most comprehensive history of the unconscious concept.