Pieffe Edizioni imprint: 7 books

On Reading

An Essay

by Georg Brandes, James Huneker, Julius Moritzen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

“It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those which are the best for each and every one. The simplest experience of the world proves that a work of great excellence may deeply move one person, while it leaves another untouched; and that a book which has influenced one strongly...

The Colours of the Mind

Creative Intelligence, Biases and Prejudices

by Remy de Gourmont, Fabrizio Pinna, Havelock Hellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017

“If I now consider man in his isolated capacity, I find that dogmatic belief is no less indispensable to him in order to live alone than it is to enable him to co-operate with his fellows. If man were forced to demonstrate for himself all the truths of which he makes daily use, his task would never...

ON READING

Le plaisir de lire

by Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

“To open a book is ever to go on a voyage of discovery. The anchor is up, and you are adrift on the unknown” (Edward Thomas); “No le pide nada a usted el cuerpo, querido lector. Pero ¿en dónde vive?” (Roberto Arlt); “It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those...
by Gaetano Mosca, Fabrizio Pinna
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2018

"dimenticava, o non sapeva, con quanta disperante lentezza si svolga ordinariamente la storia in rapporto alla brevità della vita umana". Le riflessioni sempre attuali di Gaetano Mosca, uno dei "maestri di Norberto Bobbio.

Schopenhauer y Nietzsche

Schopenhauer und Nietzsche

by Georg Simmel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2017

En breve, con unas muy justas palabras del filósofo y psicosociólogo francés Georges Palante, el libro "Schopenhauer und Nietzsche" de Georg Simmel se desenvuelve en un marco de pensamiento más largo de lo que habitualmente se mueven los estudios histórico-críticos de este género....
by Pietro Verri, Fabrizio Pinna
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2018

«La virtù suppone una esistenza ferma e fondata sopra principj costantemente seguiti e difesi. [...] In ogni nazione il saggio esamina prima di determinarsi; si determina prima di agire; ha un carattere suo; conforma talvolta alla comune opinione le sue maniere esterne, non però mai i suoi sentimenti;...
by Miguel De Unamuno, David Hume
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2018

“Fra il nulla e l’uomo più umile, la differenza è infinita; fra quest'ultimo e il genio, molto meno di quello che una naturalissima illusione ci fa credere” (Unamuno)
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