Titoli in Società

“Incredibly perceptive. . . . A stunning testimony from a talented writer who strips off false facades with honesty and vulnerability, and leaves us with a searing question: ‘Can you build a nation based on love?’” —mónica teresa ortiz, BookPage (starred review) ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST...

Falecido no Rio de Janeiro em 1917, o filósofo cearense Farias Brito é reconhecido no Brasil e no exterior pela excelência de sua obra. Extraídos do livro "A base física do espírito", os textos aqui reunidos abordam, entre outros, os seguintes temas: "O homem na cena do mundo", "As causas da revolução mental", "O racionalismo e a psicologia".

A clear-eyed look at thinking straight in a world crowded with noise, bias, and misinformation. “Fake news.” “Alternative facts.” “Post-truth.” Misinformation is everywhere, sparking public confusion and polarization. In Truth, best-selling author Michael Shermer cuts through the...

Philipp Hübl führt intelligent und unterhaltsam in die moderne Philosophie ein und gibt klare Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens: Gibt es Gott? Kann man ohne Gefühle leben? Sind wir frei in unseren Entscheidungen? Haben Träume eine Funktion? Warum ist uns Schönheit so wichtig? Hat der Tod einen Sinn? Wer dem weißen Kaninchen folgt, sieht das Wunderland der Wirklichkeit mit neuen Augen. Es ist eine Jagd mit reicher Beute, hin und her, querweltein, durchs ganze Leben und zurück.

Listening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new translation of Plutarch’s classic essay about how to become a skilled listener, complete with an inviting introduction.

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate to charity, buy Fairtrade coffee, or try to cut down on our carbon emissions. Rarely do we know if we're really helping, and despite our best intentions, our actions can have ineffective -- and sometimes downright harmful - outcomes. Confronting this problem, William MacAskill developed the concept of effective altruism, a practical, data-driven approach which shows that each of us has the power to do an astonishing amount of good, given the right information.

Мир переживает череду кризисов—климатических, политических, технологических,—​и все чаще складывается ощущение, что надеяться больше не на что. Многие поддаются этому чувству, уходят в цинизм и опускают руки. Немецкий философ, журналист и писатель Филипп Блом предлагает переосмыслить саму суть надежды. Это не утешительная иллюзия, не признак легкомыслия и не привычка закрывать глаза, а зрелое, трезвое усилие—​признать тревожную реальность и не сдаться.

Почему одни и те же факты приводят людей к противоположным выводам? Почему обсуждения не приближают к взаимопониманию? И почему вера в объективную истину может быть не менее разрушительной, чем фанатизм? «Стена невежества» — одна из самых известных и обсуждаемых книг Такэси Ёро, многолетний бестселлер в Японии. Это аудиокнига о границах человеческого понимания и об опасной иллюзии, что мы действительно знаем, как устроен мир.

Rebecca Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the human domination of nature - despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back.

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to...

How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce's Practical Radicals offers winning strategies, history, and theory for a new generation of activists. Based on...

Bloomsbury presents Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Dr. Rowan Williams, read by Niall Lucas. Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared burdens and hopes that make solidarity possible. From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for...

We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new...

The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: Modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his “humanistic psychoanalysis.”

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros conceptos ideales creados también...

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Alarms and Discursions and enjoy GK Chesterton's prolific writing.

Un inteligente análisis de uno de los males contemporáneos: aquel que sufre el Homo agitatus. Merecedor del XI Premio Málaga de Ensayo. En este audiolibro, Freire sostiene que, si la sociedad ha adoptado las hechuras de un carnaval perpetuo, detenerse a pensar es una buena forma de...

Ante todo, es un ensayo que busca poner en palabras una experiencia humana total de lo lícito y lo prohibido, una experiencia que atraviesa la vida de millones de mujeres y que está inscrita en sus cuerpos: la experiencia del dolor que puede producir vivir, amar y decidir. Había que decirlo...

Inconformistas, irreverentes, creativos, autodidactas, expertos digitales, defensores del medio ambiente y de la vida saludable... Estos son algunos de los calificativos que podrían definir a las llamadas generaciones Y y Z. Desapegados de lo tradicional, han decidido reinventar un modelo de...

Kahlil Gibran's magnificent book, "The Prophet," stands as a cherished classic in our literary heritage. Gibran's contemplative reflections are artfully organized into twenty-eight chapters, each delving into expansive themes such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.