Karl Kraus, satírico apocalíptico

After five years as a correspondent in China for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos has written one of the books that best explains the country's complex reality in a crucial moment of its history. In China: la edad de la ambici�n, he analyzes three major themes: the search for prosperity, attempts at democratic openness, and spirituality --all amid the omnipresent Community Party. The book also incorporates accounts from various citizens, some anonymous and some famous, as in the case of Ai Weiwei, on the effects of this breakneck pursuit of wealth on all areas of Chinese society. Tras pasar cinco ...

Esta obra es un ensayo sobre la creatividad desde distintos puntos de vista. El libro empieza planteando en qué situaciones puede emerger la creatividad, que necesariamente ha de venir de la percepción y tiene que darse en un contexto de libertad. Con unas explicaciones que en cierto sentido son poéticas, el lugar en que somos creativos es visto a modo de utopía, el no lugar. El autor, Daniel Yacubovich, es artista, profesor y diseñador. Desde estas actividades se plantea las relaciones del arte y el diseño como elementos de gran valor creativo para la sociedad. Nos habla de arte...

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.

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethicopolitical conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political...