John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood.
"Este libro finge ser un recorrido por el nihilismo y el romanticismo de Nietzsche en su lectura de lord Byron, así como un acercamiento al drama, el dolor, la tragedia y la dicha que implicaron para Nietzsche los nombres de Richard Wagner, Cósima, la Carmen de Bizet, George Sand y Chopin.
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'The most important book of the year' Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years.
Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years.
La revuelta de Deleuze (1925-1995) consiste en poner a la multiplicidad y la diferencia como fuente genética de todo lo que existe, frente a una larga tradición que la ha buscado en la unidad y la identidad.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain.
'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech.
Foucault se ha convertido en uno de los clásicos del pensamiento del siglo XX, y también en uno de los autores más universales, tanto por su influencia como por la multiplicidad de temas que aborda, los intereses que animan sus investigaciones y los saberes y disciplinas concernidas.
Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain.
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.
Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others.
Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.
