Hacia la vida intensa

Magnífica crítica sobre el pensamiento de Richard Dawkins en El espejismo de Dios, que disecciona los argumentos de éste para demonizar y ridiculizar todo lo divino. Un libro fundamental para entender las fisuras del "nuevo ateísmo".

Why should we care about animals? What can we do for them, and what can we stop doing against them? These are some of the important questions that this book seeks to address through clearly-exposed arguments and an abundance of facts and examples. It points out to the weakness of many preconceived notions about animals, it uncovers the harsh conditions under which many animals live, and it provides conclusive reasons for the importance of the cause of animal rights.

Como la obra sobre los pasajes de París permite imaginar a Walter Benjamin, este libro muestra la composición y el armado del pensamiento barthesiano a partir de citas, comentarios, fragmentos, enlazados por un movimiento que conserva la vibración de aquello que ha sido dicho por primera vez, explorando territorios y probando ideas. En Cómo vivir juntos, Barthes nos habla de los anacoretas y de Robinson, de monasterios y de casas, del encierro y de la distancia entre los cuerpos, del alimento, las flores, la suciedad, el vacío y los territorios. Preguntas que son, a la vez filosóficas,...

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...