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

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy joins Sam Tanenhaus, senior editor of The New York Times Book Review, to talk about his most recent book, Left In Dark Times. Levy argues for a new "left" based on universal values and ethical commitments. Topics include left-wing anti-Zionism, domestic anti-Americanism and the global effects of both.

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.

René Descartes is one of the formative figures in Western philosophy, logic and mathematics. His famous statement: "I think, therefore I am," has become perhaps the most famous phrase in all of philosophy. Descartes’s ground-breaking writings attempted to establish unshakeable foundations of knowledge, and set a trend for subsequent Western philosophy, which has endlessly critiqued and expanded upon his ideas.

Through his fiction, essays, poems, and art, Kahlil Gibran inspired a devoted international following and transformed modern Arabic literature. In this book, Joseph P. Ghougassian brings together the philosophical elements present across Gibran’s diverse writings, including his best-selling work The Prophet, as well as other significant works such as The Broken Wings, which tells the story of doomed young lovers, and the collection of aphorisms in Sand and Foam.

Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and is part of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. He was also a novelist and a dramatist, and furthered the cause of Romanticism, this exalted artistic movement which toyed with Sublime and soared on the winds of emotion.

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volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously unpublished.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".

Sin dudas, el iniciador de la indagación racional sobre el universo, considerado el primer filósofo de la historia de la filosofía occidental, y el fundador de la escuela jónica de filosofía, según el testimonio de Aristóteles. Primero y más famoso de los Siete Sabios de Grecia (el sabio astrónomo), habría tenido como discípulo y protegido, según la tradición, a Pitágoras.

Fue un extraordinario filósofo, psicólogo y pedagogo estadounidense. Junto con Charles Sanders Peirce y William James, a Dewey se le conoce por ser uno de los fundadores de la filosofía del pragmatismo. Asimismo, fue, durante la primera mitad del Siglo XX, la figura más representativa de la pedagogía progresista en EE.UU.

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.

Fue un político, estadista e ideólogo chino. Primer presidente de la República de China y fundador del Kuomintang, es considerado tanto en la República Popular China como en la actual República de China (Taiwán) como el padre de la China moderna.

Sin duda, el filósofo francés más importante de su época. Con Bergson se produce el paso del siglo XIX al XX, un momento de transición del positivismo hacia una nueva filosofía y metafísica, un intuicionismo. Ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1927, la fuerza de su intelecto es seguida con interés incluso hoy, en pleno siglo XXI.

Extraordinario filósofo y escritor ruso con orientación mística, fue autor de varios libros de temática espiritual y esotérica, que lo hicieron escritor de culto y un conferencista destacado que recorrió el mundo exponiendo sus ideas acerca del hombre, su evolución mental, el misterio de la vida y su absoluta vulnerabilidad, o dicho de otra forma, sobre el llamado Cuarto Camino.

Filósofo político y revolucionario francés, y, junto con Bakunin y Kropotkin uno de los padres del pensamiento anarquista, es considerado uno de los economistas más notables de todos los tiempos y autor de la primera tendencia económica conocida, el mutualismo.

Socrate est un philosophe de la Grèce antique (-470 à -399), considéré comme l'un des inventeurs de la philosophie morale et politique. Il n'a cependant laissé aucune œuvre écrite ; sa philosophie s'est transmise par l'intermédiaire de témoignages indirects (en particulier par les écrits de ses disciples Platon et Xénophon).

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.

We have selected for you 100 best quotes by Marx. Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx studied law and Hegelian philosophy. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, "The Communist Manifesto", and the three-volume "Das Kapital". His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.

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.

L'art du bon goût et du bon mot ? L'élégance et l'insolence ? Qu'est-ce qu'un dandy ? Michel Onfray entreprend la déconstruction du mythe qu'est devenu George Brummell, prince des dandys. Le personnage réel est retrouvé sous les falsifications accumulées par ses successeurs, comme Barbey d'Aurevilly ou Baudelaire, qui ont recréé de toutes pièces une icône à révérer.

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age. The book provides a veritable catalog of the thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the twentieth century.