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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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How to Deal With Idiots
(and stop being one yourself)
- Profile Books, 2023
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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- Quercus Publishing, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5294-2510-9
EAN 9781529425109
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the philosophical questions around knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics and justice that have engaged the minds of thinkers from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato's cave to virtue ethics, theories of punishment to animal rights, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need ...
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- Princeton, 2022
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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Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- Alfred A. Knopf, 2022
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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- Library Of America, 2022
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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- Vintage, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1334-1
EAN 9781529113341
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAING What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world. ...
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What We Owe The Future
A Million-Year View
- Oneworld, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-250-5
EAN 9780861542505
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simultaneously so realistic and so optimistic, and always so damn readable... well that is a ...
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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-735-7
EAN 9781783787357
What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to trace a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Touching on the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennett, Andre Breton's Nadja, and ...
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- Canongate, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-848-3
EAN 9781838858483
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother, ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54371-2
EAN 9780262543712
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.While there are entire bookstore sections--and even entire bookstores--devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering ...
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On Quality
An Inquiry into Excellence
- Harper Collins USA, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-06-308464-3
EAN 9780063084643
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought-"quality"-featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works. "The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962 while a ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30457-0
EAN 9780241304570
'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 286 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-84-313-3716-2
EAN 9788431337162
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- Chatto & Windus, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78474-329-1
EAN 9781784743291
'In philosophy, one must start from scratch - x{0026} it takes a very long time to reach scratch'Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe were philosophy students at Oxford during the Second World War when most male undergraduates (and many tutors) were conscripted. Taught by refugee scholars, women and conscientious objectors, the four ...
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