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Sujet d'intense fascination, le Marquis de Sade a acquis au fil des décennies une image qui relève du mythe. En occultant, détournant et justifiant les faits historiques, de nombreux intellectuels du XXème siècle interprètent avec complaisance la vie et la littérature du Marquis jusqu'à l'ériger en symbole. Briseur de tabous, libérateur de la sexualité, Révolutionnaire et féministe avant l'heure ? La réalité du personnage est autre.

Filósofo chino creador del confucianismo y una de las figuras más influyentes de la historia de su país, en un gran audiolibro preparado especialmente para nuestro gran público. Su pensamiento, introducido en Europa por el jesuíta Matteo Ricci, es objeto de estudio y seguimiento incluso hoy.

Despite new revelations about Heidegger's anti-Semitism, writes Madsbjerg, the philosopher's work still stands on its own. Fried replies.

In this compelling new biography, historian Niccol Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469-1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges - at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hard-nosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester.

Living Up There is a memoir of time lived mostly at 10,000 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in a home-made cabin. Inimitably personal, it is written with the sensibility of a loving field biologist and human wonderer. This audiobook holds obvious relations with two literary-cultural traditions: first, that of journal memoirs of days spent intentionally removed from the speed and ease and at least some of the understood contracts of "civilization," two of whose best known for bears are Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; and second, that of retreat to the natural basis of the world following the attainment of certain age and completion of responsibility cycles of family and livelihood.

An extraordinary personal testament to the life and times of one of America's great naturalists and literary figures, written by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's friend and mentor. It is perhaps the best short introduction to Thoreau's life and times. "To his lonely happiness the world will owe the best gifts he has left" - Edward Waldo Emerson. Henry Thoreau left society at the age of 28 to live for two years and two months in the woods by his own means. He did this in order that when it came time for him to die he would not discover "that he had not lived".

St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the history of Christian theology. From his conversion in 386 to his death in 430, he remained a great teacher, church statesman, and polemical theologian. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of many scholars influenced by Augustine’s theories.

No Limits Beyond a Genius tells the true life story of a young man by the name of Andrew Magdy Kamal. Throughout his life, Andrew accomplished becoming a semi-professional boxer, an inventor, a published author, a poet, a comedian, and a marathon runner...all by the ripe young age of 16!

Dr. Orison Swett Marden triumphed over his tragic childhood to become a man who was revered by millions and who became known worldwide as "The Father of the American Success Movement".

This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously unpublished. Rich in first-person narration, insight, and humor, these pieces vividly demonstrate why Thomas Nagel described Cohen as a "wonderful raconteur".

Written to commemorate the centenary of Karl Marx’s birth, Max Beer, an Austrian historian of the socialist and Marxist movements, presents a clear, detailed and highly accessible work: the first half comprises a biography, full of fascinating quotations and insightful observations whilst the second analyses many aspects of Marx’s historical and economic teachings, with useful exemplars.

Chi è più sapiente? Colui che dice di sapere o colui che sa di non sapere? Su questo bivio del pensiero Socrate ha fondato la sua vita e imposta ora la sua autodifesa: stringente, appassionante, inoppugnabile. La fine è nota. E tuttavia Socrate non perde la sua forza: perché anche la morte può essere un’avventura, di silenzio o di conversazione.

Mark Rothko, Hannah Arendt, Romain Gary, Gidon Kremer. C'è un legame sotterraneo tra alcuni grandi nomi della cultura mondiale: i paesi baltici dove sono nati e la cui anima li ha accompagnati nella fuga oltre confine. È sulle tracce di quest'anima che Jan Brokken attraversa Lettonia, Lituania ed Estonia ricostruendo le vite straordinarie di personaggi celebri e persone comuni.

Der Klassiker über das Aussteigerleben und ein radikales Selbstexperiment in der Natur: Der 28-jährige Henry D. Thoreau zog sich 1845 an den Walden-See in eine einsame Waldregion Massachusetts in eine selbstgebaute Blockhütte zurück, um zwei Jahre lang ein Leben fernab der industrialisierten Zivilisation zu leben. Bis heute ist dieses sprachlich versierte Buch, das auf Thoreaus Tagebucheinträgen basiert, für alle interessant, die einen alternativen Lebensstil erstreben.

Johannes Sløk gør i denne bog på en forståelig og pædagogisk veltilrettelagt måde rede for, hvad der var anliggendet og tankeudviklingen bag Kierkegaards livsværk. Bogen er en uundværlig nøgle for alle, der ønsker at stifte bekendtskab med Danmarks mest geniale og berømte tænker. "Den bedste og lettest tilgængelige indføring til Kierkegaards univers, der nogensinde er skrevet på dansk". - Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, direktør, Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret "... et lysende eksempel på formidling, der forener personlig lidenskab med overlegen indsigt i stoffet.

Jørgen K.’s korte liv kom til at centrere sig om Det teologiske fakultet i Århus, hvor han tog sin uddannelse og havde sit virke. Han interesserede sig især for fire områder: videnskabsteori og hermeneutik, herunder digtningens rolle; teologi og religiøs tro; menneskesynet, hin enkelte, ikke mindst som det bliver reflekteret hos Søren Kierkegaard; og endelig synet på samfundet og institutionerne. Men det var karakteristisk for ham. at han tænkte bredere og spændte videre end alle andre i sin tid.

In diesem Essay berichtet und kommentiert Walter Jens das Leben des Erasmus von Rotterdam. Erasmus von Rotterdam, eigentlich Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam, geboren vermutlich 1469 in Rotterdam und gestorben 1536 in Basel, war ein bedeutender Gelehrter. Er war Theologe, Priester, Augustiner-Chorherr, Philologe und Autor. Er schrieb vor allem theologische Schriften in lateinischer Sprache. Regie: Julius Flach. Walter Jens (1923-2013) war ein deutscher Altphilologe, Literaturhistoriker, Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Übersetzer.

Una vita esemplare e un pensiero folgorante. Eugenio Borgna ha trascorso molto della sua vita in dialogo con gli scritti di Simone Weil, che hanno saputo offrirgli infinite suggestioni per il suo cammino di medico e psichiatra, impegnato nell'ascolto e nella condivisione della sofferenza e della speranza.

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America.

Wiserwoof presents The Stoics Collection. In this first release we give you a collection of the best Epictetus quotes. Epictetus was born nearly 2,000 years ago in Hierapolis (present-day Pamukkale in Turkey) as a slave in a wealthy household. Epaphroditus, his owner, gave him the permission to pursue liberal studies and it is how Epictetus discovered philosophy through the Stoic Musonius Rufus who became his teacher and mentor. Later, Epictetus obtained his freedom shortly after emperor Nero’s death and started teaching philosophy in Rome for nearly 25 years.