The Power of Vision

204 Seiten, Tb
erschienen 2011
Best.-Nr. 11592
Gewicht: 360g

Leseprobe 1

A lively inspiring narrative, written for young adults, about the founder of homeopathy, his family life, and his revolutionary discovery of the basic principles of homeopathic medicine—how it works and why. This book will also appeal to parents and help them explain homeopathy to their children.

" My intent is to spread the Hahnemann legend beyond the  confines of
a small circle of  homeopathic devotees. The Power of Vision was
written to make his life and thought accessible to a wider circle, to bring
the legend out into the larger world, and ultimately to help give Hahnemann
his rightful due in the history of science and in our world culture." 
- Catherine Coulter

“Quite unlike any previous biography of Hahnemann, this one explores
his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood as a unique vantage point,
from which his maturity and old age actually make a new kind of sense.
What I found most refreshing about this emphasis on his early life is its
invitation to the reader to regard Hahnemann first and foremost as a man,
rather than merely an icon or object of worship; and indeed, most
emblematically, as a youth and a young man, long before he became
famous — a  time when his greatness was clearly foreshadowed by
predilections, habits, and inclinations already pre-eminent in the boy...
The theme of intellectual prowess developed by persistent application is
then retold at various stages of his life, until it becomes a recurrent leitmotiv
that provides meaning and context for everything that follows.

Reframing his long and immensely productive life as an epic of
struggle and high adventure thus gets it exactly right.  As always with
Coulter’s work, these virtues are wonderfully enhanced by the beauty and
elegance and the power of her writing — and doubly so in this case by
the purity and simplicity of her language, almost like that of a fable suitable
for being read to even younger children...  I have no doubt this book will
likewise delight and enlighten their parents and grandparents, and might
then spill over into the culture at large — as I very much hope it will...”
-Excerpts from Dick Moskowitz’s review