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Revolution of the Mind(2011) ISRAEL, JONATHANDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN DVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Inoperative Community(1991) NANCY, JEAN-LUCThis work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Music Of The Spheres(1995) JAMES, JAMIE20th-century science and music, argues Jamie James, have rejected the Romantic separation of the two. The book provides a survey of the history of science and music, a reassessment of Romanticism and the modernist reaction to it, and a radical intellectuaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Pessimism(2009) DIENSTAG, JOSHUA FOAPessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, aVezava: Mehka59,50 € -
Discarded Image(2012) LEWIS, C. S.Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teVezava: Mehka30,29 € -
How the French Think(2016) HAZAREESINGH, SUDHIRWINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Crooked Timber Of Humanity(2013) BERLIN, ISAIAH'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defenceVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Making Sex(1992) LAQUEUR, THOMASTurning Freud’s famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns.Vezava: Mehka46,09 € -
Thinking the Twentieth Century(2013) SNYDER, TIMOTHY,JUDT, TONYTwo explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the lifeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Proper Study Of Mankind(2013) BERLIN, ISAIAHIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, reVezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Russian Thinkers(2008) BERLIN, ISAIAHIn addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, the author considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as he describes, 'the largestVezava: Mehka15,41 €
