The Path of Wisdom: On Mazes

Author: (French) Jacques Attali
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: This book is a monograph by Jacques Attali, the former political advisor to French President Fran?ois Mitterrand and a renowned French scholar. It discusses the labyrinth phenomenon, which is. The book analyzes the deep cultural significance embedded in this phenomenon and its impact on human modes of thinking. Attali argues that labyrinths reached their peak in early human and medieval times, declined thereafter, but their meaning still lingers in various aspects of human life in the computer age.