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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 € -
New Nature of Maps(2002) HARLEY, J. B.In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.Vezava: Mehka45,45 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
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: Mehka18,21 € -
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Continental Philosophy(2001) CRITCHLEY, SIMON (, READER IN PHILOSOPHY)Shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices. This book discusses the ideas and approaches of various philosophers, and introduces key concepts such as existentialism, nihilism, and phenomenology,Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Serendipities(2002) ECO, PROF UMBERTOThe extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Esotericism and the Academy(2014) HANEGRAAFF, WOUTER J. (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY AND RELATED CURRENTS, UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM)Hanegraaff reveals the neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with ideas of the 'esoteric' and 'occult', present in Western culture. He asks what implications this forgotten history of exclusion has for esVezava: Mehka57,03 €









