Il Problema Dell'interpretazione in Umberto Eco
by Daniele Trematore
A disturbing portrait of a society deliriously dreaming itself as eternal, instantaneous, and infinite.At least for the time being, we humans are still finite and mortal—but death isn't what it used to be. As the body is technologically extended in space and time, we are split between our finitude and our doubled presence in a limitless web of signs, an “immortal” world of information. After Death offers a penetrating philosophical diagnosis of our contemporary condition, describing not only an...
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific practices. Climate change at its c...
Amitie, Amour, Art: Trois Essais d'Emerson (Ed.1897) (Litterature)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film
by Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Steven Sanders
La Genealgia de la Moral (Spanish Edition)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Everyone Dies Young (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Marc Auge
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least in the West, we know for certain and an expiration date that, as a general rule, we would like to de...
Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context? This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of...
"By one of the 20th century's great psychological and social thinkers, a pocket-sized collection on the importance of disobedience and the authentic voice of the individual"--
Einheit Und Vielheit ALS Metaphysisches Problem (Collegium Metaphysicum, #3)
The Cynic Philosophers
by Diogenes of Sinope, Emperor Julian, and Lucian
'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed and vice with their proposal of living simply. They guaranteed happiness to their adherents through freedom of speech, poverty, self-sufficiency and physical hardiness. In this fascinating and...
The second in a series of four audio programs, each devoted to a season, Charles Kuralt's Spring is sure to enchant his enormous audience. Includes new material from Kuralt, as well as vintage tales from CBS.
The impact of the digital world and its algorithms on human beings and societyWe read all sorts of things about AI, as the promise of a future happiness or as a threat capable of putting an end to humanity. While we cannot be "for" or "against" AI - it's already here, and not likely to disappear any time soon - the question we face is how to exist as human beings - individually, socially, collectively - in a world governed by algorithms. Since the dawn of humanity, technological objects have int...
Serpent Worship And Other Essays With A Chapter On Totemism
by C Staniland Wake
The Subjection of Women (Elecbook Classics) (John Stuart Mill)
by John Stuart Mill
In seeking to explain his opinions on a timeless subject--the relations between the sexes--John Stuart Mill admits that he has undertaken an arduous task. For "there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply-rooted of all those which gather round and protect old institutions and customs, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined and loosened than any of the rest by the progress of the great modern spiritual and...