Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199483-3
EAN 9780141994833
Professor of philosophy and a public intellectual for the internet age, Callard shows how Socrates can inform the way we live our lives from romance to politics' GuardianSocrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5299-6703-6
EAN 9781529967036
Human experiences are disappearing.Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes glued to our phones, we've even obliterated boredom. Convenient and entertaining, certainly, but with each technological embrace we risk becoming more machine-like ourselves. In this insightful reckoning with modern life and its acutely modern malady, Christine Rosen shows ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-0354-1102-3
EAN 9781035411023
A wide-ranging philosophical and practical guide to incorporating the wisdom of ancient philosophers into daily modern life. How can I live a good life? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there?These are some of life's biggest questions. But they can be hard to think through.Fortunately, a group of philosophers from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-80427-224-4
EAN 9781804272244
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is 'to speak the truth to power' even ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5266-8555-1
EAN 9781526685551
Every day we're bombarded with methods, mantras and life hacks that promise us wellness and prosperity - while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources.The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them? Do you truly believe in what you do, day in, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-0350-5479-4
EAN 9781035054794
How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?Socrates is the most famous ancient philosopher and the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are familiar with the wisdom he has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-80429-602-8
EAN 9781804296028
Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a throwback to another age, rattling Europe with memories of past horrors. But since the end of the Second World War there has not been a single day without armed conflict somewhere in the world. Drawing on the great political philosophers, from Plato to Marx, via Machiavelli ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28866-7
EAN 9780300288667
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Selection Well-written and well-translated. Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78227-883-2
EAN 9781782278832
'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80351-264-8
EAN 9781803512648
'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.'Memory isn't all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most deeply ingrained memories, they can soften and consolidate, distorted. Yet they also carry within them the blueprint of each ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-80533-767-6
EAN 9781805337676
NEW IN PAPERBACK: A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli'Remarkable... Exciting, provocative, and illuminating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalArgentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-2928-7
EAN 9781529929287
A brilliant exploration of freedom what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival from the acclaimed, bestselling author of On TyrannyFreedom is our great commitment, but we have lost sight of what it means leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-80081-592-6
EAN 9781800815926
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-84-15917-82-3
EAN 9788415917823
Filósofo de la utopía y de la resistencia, Miguel Abensour concibió la lectura como una práctica política capaz de reanimar el pasado e interpelar nuestro presente.Frente a las catástrofes del siglo XX y la persistencia de nuevas formas de dominación, su pensamiento propone un camino singular: el de una filosofía política crítica, sensible a la ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044541-1
EAN 9780140445411
A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-350-53638-8
EAN 9781350536388
What can survive the end of the world?In Otherworlds, philosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, nexus of migrations and odysseys, ruins and romances, to depict a world in which the imagination is the only engine of survival. Chapter by chapter, Campagna chronicles the existential challenges posed by history and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83726-427-8
EAN 9781837264278
With a new afterword by the author.In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83726-073-7
EAN 9781837260737
In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life, sharing the wisdom of poets, writers, musicians and artists he has encountered along the way. How can we forgive? Where does creativity come from? How can we face loss and death? How can we live a good life? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-80206-170-3
EAN 9781802061703
We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in or the machines we are endowing with life. How should we treat them as our world changes?In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane provides a new vision of ethics, defined less by our minds, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-842-8
EAN 9781804298428
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical ...
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