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Los países invisibles (Archipiélago Caribe #05)
Par Eduardo Lalo. 2019
"In |The Invisible Countries|, Eduardo Lalo undertakes a narrative and philosophical journey through Europe. With a hybrid discourse that nimbly…
accommodates the travel diary, the chronicle and the philosophical essay, the author develops an ex-centric vision that, far from the cliché of Third World victimization, undertakes a conceptual counter-conquest of the West. Thus, 'writing from invisibility', writing from the dark side of geography enhances a unique vision of the West, that Other whose myopia prevents it from recognizing 'the fiction of its invention, its laws and its grandiloquence'. In this text, the author forges new discursive possibilities for the inhabitants of 'peripheral' geographies to assume their cultural destiny freed from the gazes that often deform or deny them." -- Translation provided by NLSDieu ne joue pas aux dés
Par Henri Laborit. 1987
Passant des questions les plus simples aux problèmes les plus complexes, Henri Laborit convie son lecteur à un fabuleux voyage…
dans l'univers des théories scientifiques contemporaines. Dérive superbe qui entraîne de la création du monde à la réaction d'un rat dans une cage de laboratoire, et du fantasme des " petits hommes verts " aux charmes et à la beauté d'un corps humain. Dieu ne joue pas aux dés : ou comment aller du big bang au développement cellulaire, et appréhender les liens qui rattachent le vide quantique et les trous noirs, les électrons et l'angoisse... Un livre humaniste. Mais aussi un livre lumineux qui combine le savoir et le rêve, la science et la poésie.Quelle est la conception biblique du temps ? Comment le monde doit-il finir selon les différentes religions ? Quand et…
comment le monde finira-t-il selon les scientifiques ? Chaque auteur apporte un éclairage original sur le passé de l'homme, son présent, et sur ce qui l'attend au tournant du XXIe siècle.Big lies: from Socrates to social media
Par Mark Kurlansky. 2022
"Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise…
intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization; they corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. The future stewards of our world require a how-to manual for seeing through big lies and thinking critically, because big lies require believers, and democracy depends on independent thought." -- Provided by publisherEl amanecer de todo: una nueva historia de la humanidad
Par David Graeber. 2022
"Two archaeologists explore reinterpretations of early societal development and reject the common understanding of early mankind as primitive and childlike.…
Drawing on new understanding and research, the authors theorize about what shape human society may have taken if not in bands of hunter-gatherers as long as previously assumed." -- Provided by NLSIn defense of women (The Barnes & Noble Library of essential reading)
Par H. L Mencken. 2009
One of the most influential writers of the 20th century clarified his many contradictory ideas about women in this controversial…
1918 treatise. The essays reveal he was never more clueless about women than when believing himself enlightened about themOn the brink of everything: grace, gravity, and getting old (BK life book)
Par Parker J Palmer. 2018
Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the…
questions age raises and the promises it holds. "Old," he writes, "is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows." But this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ages to explore the way their lives are unfolding. It's not a how-to-do-it book on aging, but a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one's life, refracting new light at every turn. AdultCynismes: portrait du philosophe en chien
Par Michel Onfray. 1990
Conservatism: a rediscovery
Par Yoram Hazony. 2022
"The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism-widely held since the 1960s-is seriously mistaken. The award-winning political theorist…
Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain-the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations and became the model for national freedom for the entire world. |Conservatism: A Rediscovery| explains how Anglo-American conservatism became a distinctive alternative to divine-right monarchy, Puritan theocracy, and liberal revolution. After tracing the tradition from the Wars of the Roses to Burke and across the Atlantic to the American Federalists and Lincoln, Hazony describes the rise and fall of Enlightenment liberalism after World War II and the present-day debates between neoconservatives and national conservatives over how to respond to liberalism and the woke left. Going where no political thinker has gone in decades, Hazony provides a fresh theoretical foundation for conservatism. Rejecting the liberalism of Hayek, Strauss, and the "fusionists" of the 1960s, and drawing on decades of personal experience in the conservative movement, he argues that a revival of authentic Anglo-American conservatism is possible in the twenty-first century." -- Provided by publisherMythologies
Par Roland Barthes. 1970
Essais. Mythologies. Notre vie quotidienne se nourrit de mythes : le catch, le strip-tease, l'auto, la publicité, le tourisme... qui…
bientôt nous débordent. Isolés de l'actualité qui les fait naître, l'abus idéologique qu'ils recèlent apparaît soudain. Roland Barthes en rend compte ici avec le souci - formulé dans l'essai sur le mythe aujourd'hui qui clôt l'ouvrage - de réconcilier le réel et les hommes, la description et l'explication, l'objet et le savoir.. «Nous voguons sans cesse entre l'objet et sa démystification, impuissants à rendre sa totalité : car si nous pénétrons l'objet, nous le libérons mais nous le détruisons ; et si nous lui laissons son poids, nous le respectons, mais nous le restituons encore mystifié.» Roland Barthes.On liberty, utilitarianism, and other essays (Oxford world's classics)
Par John Stuart Mill. 2015
Together, these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and a search for the true balance between the…
rights of the individual and the power of the state. "On Liberty" is an examination of the nature of individuality and its role in any creative society. "utilitarianism" expounds on the ethics of a controversial proposition that actions are right only if they promote the common good. Adult. UnratedL'effort et la grâce: entretiens (Spiritualites Grand Format Ser. #Vol. 6055149)
Par Yvan Amar. 1999
Think on these things: selections from the Edgar Cayce readings
Par Edgar Cayce. 1981
A philosophy of walking
Par Frédéric Gros. 2014
""It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." --Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in…
France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B--the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble--and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other." -- Provided by publisher. Translated from the original 2011 French editionUnshrinking: How to face fatphobia
Par Kate Manne. 2024
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms…
everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled “An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential. In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every sizeLogique de l'argumentation (Folio, ISSN 0768-0732 #1463)
Par Pierre Blackburn. 1989
Nous passons une bonne partie de notre vie à argumenter et à examiner des argumentations. Le but premier de l'auteur…
est de fournir des outils qui permettent à l'étudiant d'organiser les idées qui lui sont soumises, de les saisir et de les comprendre. Cette approche a le mérite de contribuer à développer des habiletés qui sont transférables à d'autres disciplines et qui, de plus, sont utiles à l'étudiant en dehors de ses études. Cette deuxième édition propose une partie intitulée «Illustrations philosophiques», qui regroupe des textes de philosophes appartenant à diverses époques et cultures. Le guide d'enseignement est offert aux professeurs sur adoption.L'art d'être heureux: à travers cinquante règles de vie (Fictions)
Par Arthur Schopenhauer. 2001
Dans la forêt du miroir: essais sur les mots et sur le monde
Par Alberto Manguel. 2000
Avec l'Alice de Lewis Carroll pour guide, l'auteur d'Une histoire de la lecture explore la nature du lien qui s'établit…
entre le monde et les mots que nous choisissons pour le nommer. Un voyage au coeur subversif du langage. Prix France Culture étranger 2001.Hasard et chaos
Par David Ruelle. 1991
Si le hasard a ses raisons, il a aussi une raison. L'auteur, mathématicien, un des fondateurs de la théorie moderne…
du chaos, étudie celle-ci dans cet essai, véritable promenade à travers la physique et les mathématiques.Examines a range of perspectives and opinions on topics related to the end of life. Presents opposing outlooks on such…
issues as physician-assisted suicide, near-death experiences, and grief. Challenges readers to confront and understand conflicting points of view. For senior high and older readers. 1998