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Antropologo, etologo, filosofo naturale, Gregory Bateson è uno dei più importanti pensatori del '900...

We live in a world that feels increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). For young people, the sense of unease this world creates comes with serious difficulties. Many are asking: How can you lead, grow, and thrive in today's world? In What Is Water?, Kayvan Kian shifts the focus away from this overwhelm and toward ways of thinking that will help you grow stronger through it all.

In Das Unbehagen in der Kultur analysiert Sigmund Freud die Spannung zwischen menschlichen Trieben und zivilisatorischen Anforderungen. Wie entsteht Unzufriedenheit in einer entwickelten Gesellschaft? Warum führt Kultur nicht automatisch zu Glück? Freud entwirft ein tiefgreifendes Modell des kulturellen Daseins, in dem individuelle Freiheit und kollektive Ordnung in einem ständigen Spannungsverhältnis stehen – ein Klassiker der Kulturtheorie und ein Schlüsseltext der Psychoanalyse.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887 - 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, entrepreneur, and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discover their cultural traditions and history, and to seek common cause in the struggle for freedom and political recognition. He became a leading pan-Africanist in the United States, where he urged black Americans to return to Africa and preached solidarity among blacks around the world.

Did the Covid-19 lockdowns and mandates serve society’s best interests? Science alone can’t answer the question. Philosophers have important things to say about it. So do psychologists, economists, novelists, and lawyers.

Vorwort – Vom Stamme Nimm Es gibt Momente, in denen man glaubt, die Menschheit wirklich zu verstehen. Und dann steht man vor einem Hotelbuffet. Da liegt sie vor einem – die ganze anthropologische Wahrheit unserer Spezies, glasiert, frittiert und in Edelstahl aufgereiht: der Mensch als Konsument, der "Homo Touristicus", der kulinarische Eroberer auf All-inclusive-Mission. Nirgendwo sonst wird deutlicher, wie schmal der Grat ist zwischen Kultur und Kalorienrausch, zwischen Zivilisation und Zucchini-Auflauf.

Vivimos en una época en la que los sentimientos prevalecen sobre la razón. El poder de las instituciones públicas, combinado con las masas de acoso, las redes sociales y los medios de comunicación conquista las mentes de los pueblos occidentales. El resultado es una sociedad dócil guiada por la desinformación y los dogmas impuestos, apenas cuestionados, como la igualdad, el cambio climático, el racismo, el intervencionismo estatal o el feminismo radical, siempre vigilados por el "Ojo que todo lo ve".

Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we’re taught to avoid in polite conversation. But if they’re so unpleasant, why do so many people tune in regularly to hear Anna Sale asking perfect strangers about them? What if, rather than declaring them off-limits, we could all benefit from discussing them more? In Let’s Talk About Hard Things, Sale - the host of cult podcast Death, Sex & Money, which tackles life’s hard questions - takes her quest for more honest communication into her own life. 

Мир переживает череду кризисов—климатических, политических, технологических,—​и все чаще складывается ощущение, что надеяться больше не на что. Многие поддаются этому чувству, уходят в цинизм и опускают руки. Немецкий философ, журналист и писатель Филипп Блом предлагает переосмыслить саму суть надежды. Это не утешительная иллюзия, не признак легкомыслия и не привычка закрывать глаза, а зрелое, трезвое усилие—​признать тревожную реальность и не сдаться.

O que se diz ao pé do ouvido? Um segredo? Uma inquietação? Talvez uma declaração de amor? E que tal uma aula de filosofia? Pois é isso que fazem, neste livro, o aclamado professor Clóvis de Barros Filho e o premiado escritor Ilan Brenman. Com um toque de irreverência, boas histórias e muitos questionamentos, eles falam de temas de ontem, hoje e sempre, que fazem parte do cotidiano de todos nós: justiça, sabedoria, felicidade, bem x mal, ética, educação, liberdade e amizade.

Millions of people ask Google all sorts of questions, everything from the big to the small. Responding to the biggest existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and other philosophical greats philosopher, academic and all-round polymath Stephen Law undertakes the challenge and offers answers to our modern-day concerns. He tackles questions from 'am I a good person?' to 'Ii there a face in my toast?' with tongue-in-cheek sagacity. 

Почему одни и те же факты приводят людей к противоположным выводам? Почему обсуждения не приближают к взаимопониманию? И почему вера в объективную истину может быть не менее разрушительной, чем фанатизм? «Стена невежества» — одна из самых известных и обсуждаемых книг Такэси Ёро, многолетний бестселлер в Японии. Это аудиокнига о границах человеческого понимания и об опасной иллюзии, что мы действительно знаем, как устроен мир.

Unsere Kinder, die heute eingeschult werden, gehen im Jahr 2070 in Rente. Doch wir überfrachten sie mit Wissensstoff, den sie für ihr Leben kaum brauchen...

Il n'est pas anodin que les grandes figures sociologiques du XXe siècle, Durkheim, Mauss, Lévi-Strauss ou Bourdieu, aient été formées initialement à la philosophie. D'abord timidement, puis farouchement, la sociologie, ou encore l'anthropologie et l'ethnographie, prennent au cours du siècle leur indépendance face à la paternité philosophique pour créer la nouvelle dénomination des sciences sociales.

તમે માનો કે ના માનો પણ જિંદગીનું સત્ય એ છે કે, ૯૦ ટકાથી વધારે પુરુષ તેમજ મહિલાઓ ભારતમાં જ નહીં બલ્કે સંપૂર્ણ વિશ્વમાં પોતાના દિલની વાત બીજાથી નથી કહી શકતા. જ્યારે આપણે પોતાના દિલની વાત બીજાથી નથી કહી શકતા, તો એક વિચિત્ર પ્રકારની ગુંગળામણ ઉત્પન્ન થાય છે અને મન વિચલિત રહે છે. આ પુસ્તક સંપૂર્ણ માનવ જાતિના ફાયદા માટે લખવામાં આવી છે, જેથી દરેક વાચકને એ જાણ થઈ શકે કે, ફક્ત એ જ નહીં બલ્કે લાખો-કરોડો વ્યક્તિ પોતાના દિલની વાત બીજાઓથી નથી કહી શકતા.

હિન્દ સ્વરાજ અથવા ભારતીય ગૃહ નિયમ એ મોહનદાસ કે.ગાંધીએ 1909 માં લખેલ પુસ્તક છે. તેમાં તે સ્વરાજ, આધુનિક સંસ્કૃતિ...

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to...

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.

Moral Articulation outlines an ethical framework that allows us to embrace a version of the latter, transformative view without sacrificing notions of moral truth, objectivity, and knowledge. The book presents a view of moral meaningfulness as extending beyond what we can presently put into words, urging that expansions in our moral vocabularies often begin in dissonant experiences of conceptual and linguistic limits.

Il nichilismo, la negazione di ogni valore, è anche quello che Nietzsche chiama "il più inquietante fra tutti gli ospiti". Si è nel mondo della tecnica e la tecnica non tende a uno scopo, non produce senso, non svela verità. Fa solo una cosa: funziona. Finiscono sullo sfondo, corrosi dal nichilismo, i concetti di individuo, identità, libertà, senso, ma anche quelli di natura, etica, politica, religione, storia, di cui si è nutrita l'età pretecnologica.