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Nesse guia de leitura através da história da filosofia, Danilo Marcondes seleciona os períodos, pensadores e temas mais representativos dessa tradição, de seu desenvolvimento e de suas crises. Situa pensadores e correntes filosóficas em seu contexto histórico, discute ideias e conceitos e, quando necessário, apresenta os textos mais relevantes dos filósofos em questão.

Nesse guia de leitura através da história da filosofia, Danilo Marcondes seleciona os períodos, pensadores e temas mais representativos dessa tradição, de seu desenvolvimento e de suas crises. Situa pensadores e correntes filosóficas em seu contexto histórico, discute ideias e conceitos e, quando necessário, apresenta os textos mais relevantes dos filósofos em questão.

Nesse guia de leitura através da história da filosofia, Danilo Marcondes seleciona os períodos, pensadores e temas mais representativos dessa tradição, de seu desenvolvimento e de suas crises. Situa pensadores e correntes filosóficas em seu contexto histórico, discute ideias e conceitos e, quando necessário, apresenta os textos mais relevantes dos filósofos em questão.

Nesse guia de leitura através da história da filosofia, Danilo Marcondes seleciona os períodos, pensadores e temas mais representativos dessa tradição, de seu desenvolvimento e de suas crises. Situa pensadores e correntes filosóficas em seu contexto histórico, discute ideias e conceitos e, quando necessário, apresenta os textos mais relevantes dos filósofos em questão.

**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal). Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...

The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution. Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled,...

Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.”  Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of...

Hope is at the core of human existence. It can either be an emotion or an attitude. In either case, it is a natural and basic affection of the mind. This analysis of hope will clarify the concept by dealing with its involvement in knowledge, ethics and metaphysics. Hope can lead to truth or error,...

Arthur Schopenhauer made the momentous decision to become a philosopher when he was approximately 22 years old. Prior to that decision, he had been studying medicine at the university in Göttingen. By that age, however, he had concluded that life was a troublesome affair. So he resolved to spend...

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people...

Peter Sloterdijk’s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work. In these wide-ranging dialogues...

By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age. While many of his former students had become important philosophers and thinkers in their own right, Heidegger also inspired countless others, like Jacques Derrida,...

This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s...

If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these – rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime – that we may possibly find a systematic of his philosophy. This work constitutes...