En este libro estimulante y combativo, Helen Beebee y Michael Rush rompen nuevamente una lanza para rescatar a la filosofía de los estereotipos que han querido y quieren sepultarla en las etiquetas de lo nebuloso, de lo abstruso y de lo inoperante.
En un lugar de la filosofía, de cuya historia nadie quiere acordarse, ha mucho que existe una hidalga representante sapiencial de las de lanza y artilleros, raigambre antigua, liceos flacos e intelectuales corredores.
"Una historia de la mentira" es, contra todo pronóstico, una arriesgada apuesta por desvelar la verdad de la mentira, por seguir incansablemente sus huellas hasta el último recoveco en que se esconde o se muestra: pues en ocasiones la mentira es huidiza y oscura, pero en muchas otras se expone ante nosotros estruendosa y deslumbrante.
Filosofía Arcana te propone lanzarte a la aventura de abandonar las confortables playas de la pequeña isla del conocimiento para adentrarte en el inmenso océano que se extiende más allá de ellas.
Dosier: Simone Weil y Simone de Beauvoir: pensamiento comprometido con el mundoEntrevistas: Adriana Cavarero: «El feminismo tiene que superar ciertas censuras internas» - María del Rosario Acosta: la escucha de experiencias traumáticasReportajes: Filosofía del silencio - Los filósofos y Dios - Byung-Chul Han: diseccionar el mundo de hoy - Viktor Frankl y el sentido de la vida - El existencialismo mexicano, la edad de oro de la filosofía en México - Moderación o beligerancia, ¿cuál es más necesaria hoy?
INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this poignant, affirming, and beautifully illustrated journey, Mr Skelly explores the ups and downs of existence and discovers the makings of a meaningful life.
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction - a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives - by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself.
'This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin' (Guardian)Utopia is not somewhere you can go.
A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters.
A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters.
Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the interacting.
Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the interacting.
A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophya moving classic about facing life's worst events with courage and hopeWhat do you do when your life has fallen apart?
A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophya moving classic about facing life's worst events with courage and hopeWhat do you do when your life has fallen apart?
A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every dayperhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.
La visión atemporal de Marco Aurelio sobre el comportamiento humano demuestra que el ecosistema laboral no ha cambiado demasiado en los últimos dos mil años y que a todos nos iría bastante mejor si nos centráramos en lo que podemos controlar, dejando de lado todo aquello que escapa a nuestra influencia.
Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being?
A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every dayperhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.
Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being?
The long-awaited new book on the essence of Zen practice from the beloved author of Zen Mind, Beginner s Mind Our way of sitting is for you to become yourself.
