Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199325-6
EAN 9780141993256
One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99320-0
EAN 9780241993200
From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live'There is a question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact, has to keep on asking and keep on answering. It is, 'How should I live my life?' meaning, 'What values shall I live by? 'What sort of person ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-849082-9
EAN 9780008490829
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, ...
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Kirkpatrick, Kate; Weil, Simone
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46797-8
EAN 9780241467978
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55495-1
EAN 9780241554951
'One of the most important thinkers alive' The TimesEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of political and ethical vanities. In his wonderfully stimulating book The New ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-31630-6
EAN 9780593316306
As each of these thinkers shows, every one of us has a fundamentally incomplete picture of the world. But this is to be expected. Only as mortal, finite beings are we able to experience the world in all its richness and breathtaking majesty. We are stranded in a gulf of vast extremes, between the astronomical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3988-2770-7
EAN 9781398827707
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a book written in 1647 collecting 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that became popular throughout Europe.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1376 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119228-4
EAN 9780141192284
Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 142 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-84-338-7167-1
EAN 9788433871671
"El escritor es ese lector animado por unos pocos libros de bolsillo que encontró cuando tenía diecisiete años.La literatura le dará este coraje: leer para escribir, escribir para escribirse, escribirse para echar materialmente a volar.El escritor tuvo tres libros (antes de leerlos, había que tocarlos): Los cantos de Maldoror, de Lautréamont, Así habló Zaratustra, de ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-52380-3
EAN 9780241523803
How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25502-7
EAN 9780300255027
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5892-8
EAN 9780753558928
'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman. A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.We ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-851-4
EAN 9781783788514
The Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks shares his twelve key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking in this vital new book. --Pay attention. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real world problems?Question everything.Drawing on decades of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61563-8
EAN 9780241615638
Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today?
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1218-4
EAN 9781529112184
WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven. Philippa Foot: pathalogically discreet, quietly rebellious granddaughter of a US president. Mary Midgley: witty scholar and careful observer of humans and animals alike.Iris Murdoch: aspiring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-714-7
EAN 9781788167147
Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge?Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 50,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-22288-2
EAN 9780691222882
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world-one small change at a time"A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."-Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism SchoolLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 40,40 €
ISBN 978-0-268-20366-5
EAN 9780268203665
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-65711-8
EAN 9780525657118
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels--poets, novelists, philosophers--who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.Make s the reader feel as if ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-731-4
EAN 9781598537314
More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich"No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much ...
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