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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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- Canongate, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-287-2
EAN 9781847672872
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the timeless wisdom of ancient Greece through to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism and postmodernism, A Brief History of Thought brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy - including its profound relevance in today's world as well as its essential role in achieving happiness and living a meaningful life. This lively ...
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Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197909-0
EAN 9780141979090
'My new favourite book of all time' Bill GatesTOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-350-08053-9
EAN 9781350080539
Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. Yet the sea is also dark and mysterious ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17535-7
EAN 9780231175357
Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310592-3
EAN 9780143105923
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18312-1
EAN 9780691183121
In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio H sle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science, from the Middle Ages to today. A Short History of German Philosophy addresses the philosophical changes brought about by ...
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- Random House Uk, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78730-140-5
EAN 9781787301405
With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.'GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world's most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the unjust sufferings of the poor and unemployed, warned against totalitarianism and defended ...
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Philosophy and Revolution
From Kant to Marx
- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-578-5
EAN 9781786635785
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