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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101897-3
EAN 9780141018973
One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche continues to challenge the boundaries of conventional religion and morality with his subversive theories of the 'superman', the individual will, the death of God and the triumph of an all-powerful human life force.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945820-3
EAN 9780099458203
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101883-6
EAN 9780141018836
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101894-2
EAN 9780141018942
A searing vision of the human condition - Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art, morality and self-awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101895-9
EAN 9780141018959
Ruskin's treatise on the need for individual artistic freedom remains powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101237-7
EAN 9780141012377
A startling reappraisal of the intersection of information, news, art, and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster.From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-415-33639-0
EAN 9780415336390
Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it ...
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In this remarkable book, regarded by Russell as one of the most important of his career, he argues that power is man's ultimate goal and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-0-415-32510-3
EAN 9780415325103
While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044206-9
EAN 9780140442069
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118739-6
EAN 9780141187396
Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as My Country Right or Left', How the Poor Die' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043627-3
EAN 9780140436273
This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-943355-2
EAN 9780099433552
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defence any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities ...
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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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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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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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