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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118712-9
EAN 9780141187129
One of the most liberating books of our time'NewsweekWhen diagnosed with breast cancer Susan Sontag discovered the extent to which we have developed a mythology to cope with disease, which can often distort the truth about illness and isolate the patient. In Illness as Metaphor she strips away the myths and presents the true significance ...
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- Verso Books, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-85984-450-2
EAN 9781859844502
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular, intervention Fredric Jamesonperhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new ...
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Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. It concentrates not only on such themes in the work of Derrida but also on his own gestures with regard to these themes-that is, on ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044815-3
EAN 9780140448153
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's ...
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One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's ...
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- Routledge, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-28749-4
EAN 9780415287494
What is right ? What is wrong ? How do we decide ? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. A Short History of Ethics is widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, presenting in ...
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- Routledge, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-27849-2
EAN 9780415278492
Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way for a revaluation of the esoteric ...
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Peters, Michael E. x{0026} Ghiraldelli, Paulo (Eds.)
Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics
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- Modern Library, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 254 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75846-1
EAN 9780375758461
Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, remains one of the most effectual thinkers in European intellectual history. We can trace his influence from Kant in the 1700s to Darwin a century later. The Advancement of Learning, first published in 1605, contains an unprecedented and thorough systematization of the whole range of human knowledge. Bacon's argument ...
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- Picador USA, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42013-0
EAN 9780312420130
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often ...
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- Routledge, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-415-25532-5
EAN 9780415255325
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the ...
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- Routledge, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-415-25389-5
EAN 9780415253895
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot ...
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- New York Review Of Books, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1392 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-940322-66-0
EAN 9780940322660
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William ...
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- Pimlico, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6554-4
EAN 9780712665544
'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. The nineteen essays collected here show Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid: these short, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027661-9
EAN 9780140276619
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all; lack of money, the ...
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- Modern Library, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78334-3
EAN 9780679783343
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! , for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments ...
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- Random House USA, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-679-78339-8
EAN 9780679783398
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of ...
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Speak, Memory
An Autobiography Revisited
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118322-0
EAN 9780141183220
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118514-9
EAN 9780141185149
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - ...
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