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Télécharger le livre :  Like Love
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Like Love


Maggie Nelson


A CAREER-SPANNING COLLECTION OF INSPIRING, REVELROUS ESSAYS ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS'Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship we have' Guardian'Incisive, smart and witty, it will leave you looking...

Parution : 2024-05-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Seeing Double
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Seeing Double


Raymond Geuss


The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays...

Parution : 2024-04-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Land of the Cyclops
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In the Land of the Cyclops


Martin Aitken , Karl Ove Knausgaard


A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English,...

Parution : 2021-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Sexuality: 1
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The History of Sexuality: 1


Michel Foucault


'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are...

Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Shadows
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In Praise of Shadows


Junichiro Tanizaki


Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.Nothing evokes the calm and nuance of the traditional Japanese aesthetic more profoundly than this book. Tanizaki’s eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, even toilets, examining the design and feel of the intimate...

Parution : 2019-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Second Mountain
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The Second Mountain


David Brooks


NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the...

Parution : 2019-04-16
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Philebus
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Philebus


Plato , Robin Waterfield


Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naïve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities...

Parution : 2017-05-04
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?


Agnieszka Kolakowska , Leszek Kolakowski


Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist?Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world’s great thinkers...

Parution : 2017-05-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Treatise on Toleration
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Treatise on Toleration


Desmond M. Clarke , Voltaire


Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the Toulouse...

Parution : 2016-08-04
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The World Beyond Your Head
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The World Beyond Your Head


Matthew Crawford


From Matthew Crawford, 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times), comes The World Beyond Your Head - a hugely ambitious manifesto on flourishing in the modern world.In this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Crawford...

Parution : 2015-04-09
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Grow Up?
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Why Grow Up?


Susan Neiman


In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with urgent relevance todayBecoming an adult today can seem a grim prospect. As you grow up, you are told to renounce most of...

Parution : 2014-09-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The News
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The News


Alain De Botton


THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - an accessible and eye-opening exploration of our relationship with 'the...

Parution : 2014-02-06
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Event
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Event


Slavoj Žižek


Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Žižek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophyAgatha Christie's 4.50 from Paddington opens on a train from Scotland to London where Elspeth McGillicudy, on a way...

Parution : 2014-01-30
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Genealogy of Morals
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On the Genealogy of Morals


Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael A. Scarpitti


The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose ofThe Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in...

Parution : 2013-11-07
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth
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Truth


John D. Caputo


In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-lengthbooks of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really meansRiding to work in the morning has has become commonplace. We ride everywhere....

Parution : 2013-09-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Silence of Animals
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The Silence of Animals


John Gray


The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw DogsJohn Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud and Conrad are...

Parution : 2013-02-28
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Antifragile
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Antifragile


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands...

Parution : 2012-11-27
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Is God Happy?
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Is God Happy?


Leszek Kolakowski


'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus...

Parution : 2012-11-01
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Distrust that Particular Flavor
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Distrust that Particular Flavor


William Gibson


Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And as his stories...

Parution : 2012-02-02
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Moral Landscape
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The Moral Landscape


Sam Harris


Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the...

Parution : 2011-06-30
Format(s) : ePub
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