El cerebro de Siddhartha

El estudio de E. Timms diverge de la tradición al uso entre los críticos de Kraus que siempre han insistido en la unidad entre el hombre y su obra. El presente libro ofrece una lectura alternativa que saca a la luz las discrepancias entre la postura personal de Kraus y su voz satírica. La biografía de E. Timms recoge ese camino complejo, desentraña y analiza divergencias, y reconstruye la evolución histórica de un mundo y un escritor que son fundamentales para la historia europea.

Los interesados en la obra de Martin Heidegger han quedado desconcertados al enterarse, con documentos contundentes, que su compromiso con el Nazismo no fue un episodio insignificante en su vida, sino una elección fundada en sólidas convicciones y no del todo desligada de su pensamiento.

This work constructs a methodology of active learning for observing the observer. The tool used is the construction of games. The basic questions are: What actions can be taken to allow the subject to observe him or herself? And How can learning activities be used to reconstruct the subject-s experience during the observation? The basic reference framework for the qualitative research is constructivism. The conceptual and philosophical analysis of research is second-order cybernetics that gives relevance to the theory of the observer and to the relationship between the observer and what is...

This volume honors the Rev. Professor James McEvoy on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The theory of friendship, which has been one of McEvoy's major fields of research and publication, used to be at the heart of the philosophical project, and indissociable from it. For Socrates, philosophy was possible only as the pursuit of wisdom, virtue, and beauty in a community of friends engaged in an "erotic" quest for the good. The present volume wants to make a contribution to the recovery of the friendship theme in its central importance to philosophy. It contains eighteen contributions by...