"Everything a thousand: 33 micro-essays on worldly philosophy" by Javier Gomá Lanzón "With this collection of micro-essays, Javier Gomá goes one step further in his determined will to make a worldly philosophy, open to all, and thus offers the best possible introduction, in a thousand words, to the most serious and perennial philosophical problems.” Taken from
“Goodbye to the truth” by Gianni Vattimo “In this new work, Gianni Vattimo shows us how the truth has become the highest representation of contemporary culture. Philosophy, religion and politics but also, and fundamentally, our daily experience are marked by a particular valorization of truth. Nevertheless,
“Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault” by Peter Sloterdijk “I hope I have shown with the brief studies gathered here that the scale of philosophical temperaments goes far beyond the opposition between cowardly and proud types. It is as extensive as the soul illuminated by the logos, whose limits, Heraclitus affirmed, are impossible to reach,
“The Conquest of Happiness” by Bertrand Russell “In 1930 Russell publishes “The Conquest of Happiness” a plan to get rid of the main causes of unhappiness, making room for affection and, above all, common sense. It is an inescapable work in these times. In addition, despite the time that has elapsed, it is still fully
“Minima moralia: reflections from the damaged life” by Th. W. Adorno “Minima moralia, probably one of Adorno's best-known works, was written for the most part in the closing years of World War II. With the perspective of the intellectual in exile always present, the author articulates in three parts and a
“Thus spoke Zarathustra: a book for everyone and no one” by Friedrich Nietzsche “Philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the “eternal recurrence of the same ”, the parable on the “death of God”, and the “prophecy” of the
“In her 45 years of exile, María Zambrano went through all the spaces of absence. Assuming exile was for her to inhabit her absence, from which her thought springs. Whoever thinks that her work responds to a matrix already formed before she left Spain is mistaken. She had a thought of her own that was developing
“The collected dialogues of Plato, including the letters” “All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are presented here in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last