El mundo según Hannah Arendt

The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

Why have history's greatest minds--from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities--embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as...

El estudio de Bodei reconstruye los usos de las pasiones a trav s de un an lisis de amplio alcance te rico e hist rico y muestra c mo la oposici n entre raz n y pasiones indica el fracaso de los sistemas ticos y pol ticos que fluct an entre normas represivas y actitudes laxistas.

Este volumen recoge las tres versiones iniciales de la obra que obsesionó a Schelling durante casi veinticinco años: Las edades del mundo. Estos textos fragmentarios no se publicaron en vida de su autor, y gracias a ellos podemos conocer la fase más oscura y enigmática de la filosofía de Schelling, aquélla que abandona las comodidades de la filosofía de la identidad y se adentra en los terrenos de la religión y de la mitología.