LIBROS DEL AUTOR: caroline warman

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: caroline warman

  • The Atheist’s Bible
    Caroline Warman
    ’Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be...
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  • Denis Diderot ’Rameau’s Nephew’ - ’Le Neveu de Rameau’
    Caroline Warman / Kate Tunstall
    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out ...
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  • Tolerance
    Caroline Warman
    This anthology, inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needed to be concise to have real influence, contains firey extracts from forty different authors, from the philosophers everyone’s heard of to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. They are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common their passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and to...
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