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The Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped Modern Thought
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 335 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19228-4
EAN 9780691192284
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his religious skepticism and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith, now hailed ...
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- Harper Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-06-289794-7
EAN 9780062897947
THE UNIVERSE'S ULTIMATE MYSTERIES, PRESENTED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and SlowTHIS IS A LITTLE BOOK OF PROFOUND QUESTIONS-unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-1-350-06656-4
EAN 9781350066564
AThe concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection ...
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Emancipation After Hegel
Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19270-5
EAN 9780231192705
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about ...
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Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become an injustice committed against society .How did this happen?In this book, Malcolm Bull ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-425-4
EAN 9781784704254
Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history.Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all ...
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- Allen Lane, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33732-5
EAN 9780241337325
'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if we accept it, our helplessness is guaranteed.To bring about real change, argues activist and political philosopher Srecko ...
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The hum of the World
A Philosophy of Hearing
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30349-2
EAN 9780520303492
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of ...
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Irrationality
A history of the dark side of reason
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17867-7
EAN 9780691178677
A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value.Discovering that reason is the defining ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-147-3
EAN 9781788161473
We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198110-9
EAN 9780141981109
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny' ObserverA meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers'When you explore ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-58660-1
EAN 9780226586601
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study ...
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Live Like A Stoic
52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help us live the good life. It offers a year-long programme of 52 weekly exercises aimed at mastering an array of real-life troubles.Full of practical lessons ...
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As If
Idealization and Ideals
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23771-1
EAN 9780674237711
Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. Our beliefs, desires, and sense of justice are bound up with these ideals, and we proceed 'as if' our representations were ...
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- Penguin USA, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311138-2
EAN 9780143111382
One of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to ...
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Dawkins, Richard; Dennett, Daniel C.; Harris, Sam; Hitchens, Christopher
The Four Horsemen
The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- Transworld Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-08039-9
EAN 9780593080399
Known as the four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights - about religion and atheism, science ...
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How to Keep Your Cool
An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18195-0
EAN 9780691181950
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his ...
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How to Think about War
An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 332 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19015-0
EAN 9780691190150
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-882866-2
EAN 9780198828662
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18300-8
EAN 9780691183008
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe ...
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