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- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61564-5
EAN 9780241615645
'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . .A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton, Five Books Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today?The Lyceum ...
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How to Be
Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
- Harper Collins, 2024
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
The Need for Roots
Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
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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The New Leviathans
Thoughts After Liberalism
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
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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- Oneworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-613-8
EAN 9780861546138
In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the distant future is a moral priority of our time. It isn't enough to mitigate climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; cultivate value pluralism; and prepare ...
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The Rigor of Angels
Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- Random House USA, 2023
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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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80351-008-8
EAN 9781803510088
Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. In his radical work of philosophy John Gray sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. Philosophies such ...
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Classic Advice on How to Live Well
- Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2023
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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- Penguin UK, 2023
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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- Verso Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-044-6
EAN 9781804290446
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life. In A Philosophy of Walking, ...
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Nietzsche embriagado
La verdadera historia del dios filósofo
- Universidad de Granada, 2023
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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54323-8
EAN 9780241543238
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire. Why do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing desires at the heart of our existence - desires that we ...
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Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-9276-0
EAN 9781529392760
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small German town of ...
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- MIT Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54461-0
EAN 9780262544610
A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought. Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture.In this concise, engagingly written ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
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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- Yale University Press, 2023
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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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
- Ebury Publishing, 2023
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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How to Think Like a Philosopher
Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
- Granta Books, 2023
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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
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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Metaphysical Animals
How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- Vintage, 2023
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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