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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dawkins, Richard; Dennett, Daniel C.; Harris, Sam; Hitchens, Christopher
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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-313358-2
EAN 9780143133582
A stunning new hardcover edition--with a full linen case, copper stamping, and colored endpapers--of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new foreword by Rupi Kaur, the multimillion-copy, 1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers"This book cracked my heart wide open. ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310592-3
EAN 9780143105923
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