Set in Lisbon in 1506, a debut novel in the tradition of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. When his uncle, a renowned kabbalist, is found dead, Berekiah's investigations lead him into the secret ways in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors.
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.Costello’s son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother’s lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does ...
From the #1 best-selling author of , a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages—with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices—past and present—that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, ...
Приложение к книге Ж.Делеза «Логика смысла».В статье М.Фуко дан развернутый комментарий произведений Делеза «Логика смысла» и «Различение и повторение».
El escritor italiano Claudio Magris propone no rendirse frente al estado de cosas tal como est?n, sabiendo que, quiz?s, el mundo no cambie ni mejore. El libro re?ne una selecci?n de la obra ensay?stica del autor entre 1974 y 1998.Utop?a y desencanto: historias, esperanzas e ilusiones de la modernidad re?ne casi 50 ensayos escritos por Claudio Magris, ganador del Premio Pr?ncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2004. Sus ensayos peregrinan por diferentes temas de la actualidad trazando un mapa del mundo contempor?neo en el que, seg?n Magris, deben convivir los conceptos, ...
