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The Choice
William Butler Yeats · 2021
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8) / The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms.
The Chronicles of Prydain
Lloyd Alexander · 2018
Taran is desperate for adventure. Being a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper just isn't exciting. That is, until the magical pig, Hen Wen disappears and Taran embarks on a death-defying quest to save her from the evil Horned King. His perilous adventures bring Taran many new friends: an irritable dwarf, an impulsive bard, a strange hairy beast and the hot-headed Princess Eilonwy. Together, they must face the deathless Cauldron-Born warriors, dragons, witches and the terrifying Horned King himself.
The Companion Species Manifesto
Donna Haraway
"The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in 'significant otherness.' In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for theory, she says they are not here just to think with. Neither are they just an alibi for other themes dogs are fleshly material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience. They are here to live with.
The Dark Knight Trilogy
Christopher Nolan · 2013
Dieser Dokumentarfilm taucht tief in die Dark Knight Trilogie ein. Er beginnt mit der Inspiration und Vision für die neuen Batman-Filme und bahnt sich seinen Weg zum Finale von „The Dark Knight Rises“ und dem Höhepunkt von fast einem Jahrzehnt kreativer Arbeit. Offen, nachdenklich und ausführlich, mit aufschlussreichen Blicken hinter die Kulissen, unzähligen Interviews, Casting-Videos (mit Christian Bale und Cillian Murphy in Umhang und Kapuze) und einer ganz eigenen erzählerischen Spannung und ...
The Delusions of Certainty
Siri Hustvedt · 2017
WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZE FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED 'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch' Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt turns her brilliant and critical eye toward the metaphysical issues of neuropsychology in this lauded, standalone volume.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2006
The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.
The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex
Michael Ghiselin · 1997
In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we classify traits and processes. He develops and applies the implications for general biology and other sciences and makes the case that a better understanding of species and of classification in general puts biologists and paleontologists in a much better position to understand nature in general, and such processes...
The False Promise of ChatGPT
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky und Co-Autoren kritisieren in diesem New York Times-Artikel den rein datengetriebenen Ansatz moderner KI wie ChatGPT. Sie argumentieren, dass dieser Ansatz fundamentale Fragen nach echten Kausalzusammenhängen vernachlässigt und stattdessen nur Datenmuster extrahiert, ohne echtes Verständnis zu schaffen.
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins · 2009
THE FOUR MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliantly argued and impassioned classic polemic from the world’s best-known atheist. Sensationally incisive and perennially timely, this is required reading for everyone. ‘A resounding trumpet blast for truth’ Matt Ridley '[The God Delusion] deserves multiple readings; not just as an important work of science, but as a great work of literature’ Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, Times Literary Supplement ‘If its merciless rationalism doesn’t en...
The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt · 2015
Every culture rests on a bedrock of folk wisdom handed down through generations. The pronouncements of philosophers are homespun by our grandmothers, and find their way into our common sense: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Happiness comes from within. But are these 'truths' really true? Today we all seem to prefer to cling to the notion that a little bit more money, love or success will make us truly happy.
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home
Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman · 1995
A collection of intimate reflections on such diverse subjects as classical history, popular mythology, love, and the fragility of nature.
The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster · 2007
In his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that “integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living” (Newsday) “Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationships.”—The New York Times Book Review “One day there is life. . . .
The Last Man
Mary Shelley · 1998
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Auftritt Ricky Gervais)
· 2015
Auftritt von Ricky Gervais bei Stephen Colbert. Die beiden diskutieren das Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion, wobei Gervais sein Argument zur Reproduzierbarkeit wissenschaftlicher versus religiöser Aussagen präsentiert – eine pointierte Auseinandersetzung mit Evidenz und Überzeugung.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2000
50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization.
The Life of Adam Smith
Dugald Stewart · 1829
Unproduktive Arbeit (oder nicht-produktive Arbeit) ist ein aus der klassischen Nationalökonomie stammender umstrittener Begriff und ein politisches Schlagwort, unter dem die geringfügige oder fehlende Produktivität einer Arbeit verstanden wird.
The Life of Reason
George Santayana · 2011
Santayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2015
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past. But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer.
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster · 2012
Jeder der drei Romane der «New-York-Trilogie» wirkt zunächst wie eine klassische, spannungsgeladene Kriminalgeschichte. Alle drei ziehen den Leser mit raffiniert ausgelegten «Ködern» in ihren Bann. Aber bald scheinen die vordergründig logischen Zusammenhänge nicht mehr zu stimmen. Täter werden auf rätselhafte Weise zu Opfern, Verfolger zu Verfolgten. Schritt für Schritt wird auch der unabhängige Beobachter, ob Leser oder Detektiv, in ein Spiel mit seinen eigenen Erwartungen verstrickt.
The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism
Paul Cantor · 2006
Carol Dougherty traces a history of the Prometheus myth from its origins in Ancient Greece to its resurgence in the works of the Romantic era and beyond. Prometheus defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind and his story continues to make an appearance in art and literature to the present day.
The Nine Names of God (Kurzgeschichte)
Arthur C. Clarke · 1974
This volume is of special interest -- included are a wide range of classic stories, including the title story, "Jupiter Five," "The Deep Range," "Second Dawn," and the earliest of the splendidly comic narratives told by Harry Purvis for the benefit of the denizens of the White Hart.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2017
“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper · 2012
Popper is one of the twentieth century's towering and influential philosophical and intellectual figures, widely read today This marks the first time The Open Society and Its Enemies has been published in a single paperback volume (hardback version was published for the Popper Centenary in 2002) Features a preface by Vaclav Havel and a 'personal recollection' on the story behind the book's publication by Ernst GombrichThe Open Society is one of the twentieth century's most important books, both ...
The Philosopher Queens
Rebecca Buxton, Lisa Whiting · 2020
'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy – love it!' Elif Shafak Where are the women philosophers? The answer is right here. The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you’ve probably heard the names Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Locke – but what about Hypatia, Arendt, Oluwole and Young? The Philosopher Queens is a long-awaited book about the lives and works of women in philosophy by women in philosophy.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell · 1988
Onversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.
The Professor of Parody
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum kritisiert in diesem berühmten Essay Judith Butlers Schreibstil und theoretische Ansätze scharf. Sie setzt sich mit der Unverständlichkeit von Butlers Texten auseinander und hinterfragt deren akademischen Gehalt kritisch. Der 1999 veröffentlichte Text ist eine prägnante Analyse der postmodernen akademischen Prosa und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Philosophie.
The Reasons of Love
Harry Frankfurt · 2009
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning.
The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan · 2021
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what everybody is talking about today 'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve.
The Right to Sex (Essay in der Schweizer Wochenzeitung)
Amia Srinivasan · 2021
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what everybody is talking about today 'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve.
The School of Life
Alain de Botton · 2019
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Take some time to reflect and refocus this winter, with the essential guide on how to live wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love This is a book about everything you were never taught at school.
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch · 2023
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found here.
The Sucker, the Sucker!
Amia Srinivasan · 2026
Eva von Redecker legt eine neue Analyse des Faschismus vor, die unserer Gegenwart gewachsen ist. Es geht ein Rechtsruck um die Welt, überall gewinnen autoritäre Kräfte an Macht und Einfluss. Und doch laufen die ewig bemühten Analogien zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ins Leere: Der Faschismus der Gegenwart hat eine neue Gestalt, die nicht leicht zu erkennen und noch schwerer zu erklären ist. In Redeckers wegweisender Analyse gewinnt sein diffuses Wesen an Kontur – und wird angreifbar.
The Trauma Plot
Parul Sehgal · 2022
Es liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass es für ›die Jugend‹ gerade in den frühen Nachkriegsjahren einen großen Bedarf an Sinn und Trost, an Religion und ›Religioidem‹ (Simmel) gegeben habe. Aber war es tatsächlich so? Gerade die junge Generation hatte sich mit einer nie dagewesenen »transzendentalen Obdachlosigkeit« (G. Lukács) auseinanderzusetzen.
The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson · 2020
Ein unscheinbarer Aufsatz mit dem Titel "The Trolley Problem" aus dem Jahr 1985 beschäftigt uns bis heute: Angenommen, ein Mensch muss sich entscheiden, ob er eine Straßenbahn ("Trolley") geradeaus fahren lässt, so dass sie fünf Gleisarbeiter tötet, oder ob er sie auf einen anderen Arbeiter umlenkt. Welche Entscheidung wäre zulässig, und weshalb? Die Frage deutet auf ethische Grundprobleme hin, die im Zeitalter der Maschinenethik – etwa beim autonomen Fahren – ganz neue Aktualität gewinnen.
The Two Cultures
C.P. Snow · 2012
*The Two Cultures* is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. The talk was delivered 7 May 1959 in the Senate House, Cambridge, and subsequently published as *The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution*.
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael Sandel · 2020
A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers "Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of Educated These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate.
The Unreality of Time
John McTaggart · 2020
McTaggarts philosophischer Essay argumentiert, dass Zeit nicht existiert. Sein Kerngedanke: Nichts kann zugleich absolut widersprüchliche Eigenschaften haben. Da Ereignisse nicht gleichzeitig in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft liegen können, folgt daraus, dass Zeit nicht real sein kann.
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1994
The classic eighteenth-century treatise on the principles of political economics.
The Will to Believe
William James · 1896
This volume contains the complete texts of two books by America's most important psychologust and philospher. Easy to understand, yet, brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for laymen and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an age of science.
The Work of the Dead – A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
Thomas W. Laqueur · 2018
The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains.
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns
Jürgen Habermas · 1995
Die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns ist auf Bedürfnisse der Gesellschaftstheorie zugeschnitten. Zunächst leistet sie einen Beitrag zur Bedeutungstheorie. Wir verstehen einen Sprechakt, wenn wir wissen, was ihn akzeptabel macht. Ferner stellt sich die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns die Aufgabe, die in die kommunikative Alltagspraxis eingelassene Vernunft aufzusuchen und aus der Geltungsbasis der Rede einen unverkürzten Begriff der Vernunft zu rekonstruieren.
This Is Water
David Foster Wallace · 2012
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others.
This Too Shall Pass
Tom Hanks · 2026
L'histoire de la réalisation d’un film de super-héros au budget colossal, et du comics inconnu qui l'a inspiré. 1947, en Californie, un talentueux petit garçon de cinq ans recopie les comic strips du journal local ; 2020, une émouvante projection a lieu à Times Square. Entre les deux, 70 ans d'une Amérique en pleine mutation, un tournage rocambolesque et une galerie de personnages hauts en couleur : un soldat traumatisé par la guerre, un réalisateur inspiré et excentrique, une star prétentieuse,...
Thomas Gottschalks Buch (mutmaßlich: Ungefiltert)
Thomas Gottschalk · 2025
Das Buch behandelt eine faszinierende Bandbreite von Themen, die Mensch und KI gleichermaßen betreffen: Von Krieg und Freundschaft, über Politik und Klimawandel, bis hin zu kreativen Erzählungen und philosophischen Fragen. Diese Themen werden stets aus zwei Perspektiven betrachtet – der eines Menschen und der einer KI. So entsteht eine spannende Mi
Tiere denken: Vom Recht der Tiere und den Grenzen des Menschen
Richard David Precht · 2016
Basierend auf dem 1997 erschienenen Titel „Noahs Erbe“ – von den Lesern lange erwartet. Wie sollen wir mit Tieren umgehen? Wir lieben und wir hassen, wir verzärteln und wir essen sie. Doch ist unser Umgang mit Tieren richtig und moralisch vertretbar? Richard David Precht untersucht mit Scharfsinn, Witz und Kenntnisreichtum quer durch alle Disziplinen die Strukturen unserer Denkmodelle.
Tiere für Fortgeschrittene
Eva Menasse · 2017
»Wer die Welt so anlächelte, musste eine Schraube locker haben. Oder ein Schutzblech zu wenig über der Seele.« Raupen, die sich ihr eigenes Grab schaufeln, Haie, die künstlich beatmet werden, Enten, die noch im Schlaf nach Fressfeinden Ausschau halten, Schafe, die ihre Wolle von selbst abwerfen. Jede von Eva Menasses Erzählungen geht von einer kuriosen Tiermeldung aus und widmet sich doch ganz der Gattung Mensch.
Time Enough for Love (Die Leben des Lazarus Long)
Robert Heinlein · 1987
The capstone and crowning achievement of the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction... Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
Huw Price · 1996
The arrow of time and the meaning of quantum mechanics are 2 of the great mysteries of modern physics. This important book - written for non-specialist readers, as well as physicists and philosophers - throws new light on both issues.
Titel über Utopien und Dystopien
Thomas Assheuer
Der Artikel von Thomas Assheuer untersucht das klassische Werk "Utopia" von Thomas Morus und diskutiert die Bedeutung von utopischem Denken in der heutigen Zeit. Er argumentiert, dass Utopien als politische Hoffnungsbilder kaum noch funktionieren und dass die wichtigste Aufgabe moderner Gesellschaften darin besteht, das Schlimmste zu verhindern, anstatt bessere Welten zu entwerfen.
Titelgeschichte über den Weltuntergang
Malte Henk
Der Artikel untersucht, wie Menschen mit dem Wissen um existenzielle Krisen umgehen. Malte Henk verbindet die moderne Wahrnehmung des Weltuntergangs mit historischen Perspektiven wie Isaac Newtons Bibelforschung und argumentiert, dass apokalyptisches Bewusstsein jeden Moment wertvoll macht. Diese innere Haltung hilft uns, das Leben intensiver wahrzunehmen und zu schätzen.