
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (La civilización del espectáculo) is an attempt to express a feeling of concern, an anguish of sorts, on seeing what we understood by "culture" when I was young, changing during
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As Hessel admits, this text differs from his essays, because through it he turned to the spirit for the first time. Conversely, what is striking in the words of the Dalai Lama, is his will to emphasize the importance of "secular ethics", the one
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If the experts could be trusted, it is the first time when here, in Bulgaria, and probably throughout the world, is founded a work as ambitious as this – it retraces, step by step, the manifestations of interest towards the language and theory
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If the experts could be trusted, it is the first time when here, in Bulgaria, and probably throughout the world, is founded a work as ambitious as this – it retraces, step by step, the manifestations of interest towards the language and theory
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Is capitalism moral? Nobody can escape that question because we are all subjects both of morality and capitalism. As we work, we save and consume, we participate in the economic system of capitalism that some of us justify and condemn others, led by
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A history of philosophy to inspire readers, young and old. Ferry was formerly the Minister for Youth and Education in France, and is the author of "Learning to Live", which sold over 300,000 copies. He shows how philosophy is essential to our
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A 400-page volume, it is the most complete and systematic of Alberoni's works on the love theme. The processes or mechanisms that create love bonds are of four types. The first is the pleasure principle. We bond with those who give us pleasure. It
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Should one be insane in order to aim power? Either megalomaniac at some extend to chase it, or paranoic to protect themselves from betrayals...?
According to the media it is all clear: George Bush is an "autistic", Silvio Berlusconi -
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One of the best known psychology dictionaries in the world. First published in 1967 and translated into 17
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"At first blush "atheist spirituality" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but French philosopher Comte-Sponville makes a compelling argument for a profound dimension of experience that is god-free. His idea of spirituality also bears no small
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Bright and unusual book about the tragic doom of the white heterosexual man in the world he created and civilized by himself. The publication of the book instigates a violent dispute and bitter attacks. Unbelievable practices are still widely spread
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Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.
-- Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines the
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Erotism together with Falling in Love and Friendship, form part of a well-know trilogy on human feelings. Alberoni dwells on the mysterious world of erotic love will, an emphasies on the differences between male and female
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Mythologies is the title of a collection of essays examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of
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