‘Ontdek de Marcus Aurelius van China.’

Al lijkt het ongelofelijk, een Oud-Chinese filosofische tekst uit 1590 zorgde recentelijk in Japan en Korea voor een ware hype: de Caigentan, ‘wortels van levenskunst’. In een grote serie aforismen stelt Hong Zicheng natuur en moraal centraal, benaderd vanuit Confucianisme, Taoïsme en Boeddhisme. Waarom zijn deze aforismen opeens populair? Omdat ze uitnodigen tot kritische zelfreflectie over ongelijkheid, egoïsme en individualisme. Daarmee zijn...

Het levensverhaal van Anna J. Cooper is al een boek waard. Geboren als tot slaaf gemaakte in North Carolina werd ze een pionier en geleerde van de hoogste soort: ze was onder meer de vierde Afro-Amerikaanse vrouw met een PhD (behaald aan de Sorbonne in Parijs), schooldirecteur en bevlogen docent tot haar 95e, en een vooraanstaand activist.

Het bekendste werk van Anna J. Cooper is Een stem uit het Zuiden (A Voice from the South). Deze sprankelende verzameling

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Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, a...

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, The Jew as Pariah, and The Human Condition, as well as many shorter writings and letters. Sections include extracts from her work on fascism, Marxism, and totalitarianism; her tre...

Why It’s OK to Trust Science is an unabashed defense of science, objectivity, and the essential value of both in our "post-truth" age, exploring the intellectual and historical roots of anti-science and presenting clear and cogent rebuttals to anti-scientific arguments.

In What is Literature? sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.

In this revolutionary book, never out of print since its first publication in 1928, Russell guides us through the key philosophical issues that affect our daily life

Here Winch addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society', drawing from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case.

Nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, this masterly exploration reaffirms the validity of Darwin's theory of natural selection and brilliantly demonstrates its compatibility with free will, sacred beliefs, and the dignity of humankind.