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El humanismo secular es un movimiento filosófico que se centra en la importancia de la razón, la ética y la justicia social en la construcción de una sociedad más justa y libre. Se basa sobre todo en la idea de que los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad y la responsabilidad de crear una vida significativa y moral sin depender de la religión o la superstición. 'Humanismo Secular: un manual para la vida' es la guía definitiva para aquellos que...
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"An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three ... essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally....
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Estas cartas las dirijo a usted, señor X, es decir, a mí mismo, a ese que seré cuando la piel se aje, cuando envejezca, cuando espere en mi lecho la llegada de la muerte y solo desee poder intercambiar mi lugar con alguien más. Se las escribopara recordarle algunas cosas que le gustaban, pero especialmente porque en estos días he pensado mucho en la ignorancia y sé que a usted, que ya se ha convertido en un viejo ignorante, aún deberá emocionarle...
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Tzvetan Todorov is Research Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the author of many books, including The Conquest of America, On Human Diversity, The Morals of History, Facing the Extreme, and The Fragility of Goodness (Princeton). He writes regularly for the New Republic, Salmagundi, and other publications.
Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history...
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Eugenio Garin afirmaba que "no cabe duda de que es imposible asir el sentido del Renacimiento italiano ni comprender su peso en la historia, si no se aferra el secreto de su profunda unidad vivencial de ciencia y arte, de un tormentato pensamiento crítico unido a una fe religiosa renovada por el retorno a los orígenes". Haciéndose cargo de dicha aseveración, el filósofo francés Stéphane Toussaint sugiere en este libro dos conceptos que revitalizan...
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"Winner of the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the year 2014, chosen by Thom Shippey" "Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015" James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor...
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Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from "both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability" (Chicago Tribune).
As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"-between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity.
The alternatives of having...
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"Fromm crossed the boundaries of traditional disciplines to expound his view on the alienation of man in an increasingly technological world." -Newsweek
Erich Fromm's basic idea was to look at the individual as a social being, and to look at society as an ensemble of many individuals who have not only mutual ideas and convictions based on a common practice of life, but also a shared psychic structure. With his concept of "social character," Fromm...
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Ante los procesos acelerados de destrucción del planeta y de sometimiento de la vida en condiciones indignas, la esperanza reclama un lugar central. La necesidad de la esperanza se puede expresar como la urgencia por definir el modo materializar la idea de un mundo mejor, cómo hacer que los hechos sustenten el discurso.
El presente texto plantea un abordaje de la esperanza como un componente necesario para la construcción de una vida digna. Para...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Stanley Corngold is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. His many books include The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory; Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature; Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (Princeton); and Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
The first complete account of the ideas and...
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¿Qué le pasa a una sociedad cuando relega el estudio del mundo clásico? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias para la convivencia democrática de arrinconar las humanidades y entronizar como únicos paradigmas válidos la ciencia y la tecnología? ¿Qué le sucede a una civilización que extravía, en el vértigo del presente, su alma? Tres grandes humanistas, el filólogo George Steiner, el poeta Adam Zagajewski y la helenista Jacqueline de Romilly...
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Javier Peteiro Cartelle, un científico que ha hecho un esfuerzo encomiable por devolverle a la ciencia la dignidad que la degradación histórica generalizada ha producido en el registro de la verdad, nos ofrece en este libro una selección de textos que se ocupan de la actualidad en la que vivimos y sobrevivimos, hechos desde la perspectiva de la ciencia, la literatura, la poesía, y la fe. Una selección que ha decidido publicar clasificándolos...
16) Nihilism
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"What does Nihilism mean?" wrote Friedrich Nietszche. "-That the highest values are losing their value. There is no goal…. There is no Truth, no 'thing in itself.' There is no answer to the question: 'why?'"
In 1962, the young Eugene Rose-the future Hieromonk Seraphim-undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of materials he compiled for this work, only the present essay, on...
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« Sauver l'humanité par les technosciences », « élaborer des nouvelles lignées post-humaines dans la grande histoire de l'évolution », « supprimer la vieillesse et la mort » : les nouveaux pouvoirs de l'homme sur l'homme effraient autant qu'ils fascinent. Le transhumanisme, aujourd'hui secteur de recherche le mieux pourvu en budget (car appuyé par les plus puissantes multinationales nord américaines et asiatiques), brouille les frontières...
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Absurd, hilarious and haunting, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre is an unforgettable mystery that asks the question: How can we ever know who we are and what is true when the world we know is shifting beneath us? Its answer is simple: John Wilkes Booth was the first American star--the actor who kidnapped reality to transform it into theatre.
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Lisa Jardine is professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is also director of the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine,...
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