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Heretics

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

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Repro India Limited
Año de edición:
2025
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9789358041071
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Heretics is Chesterton’s rollicking, iconoclastic collection of essays attacking the fashionable dogmas and isms of his day. With biting humor and barbed paradox, he targets critics, writers, philosophers, and public figures who, in his view, rebel only for rebellion’s sake. Each chapter is a spirited, almost theatrical defense of orthodoxy, tradition, and the need for real, rooted convictions in the face of shifting trends and specious originality.Chesterton skillfully skewers the superficiality of modern intellectual currents, dissecting arguments with both logic and irrepressible wit, and holding up a mirror to the follies of progressive fads. Yet beneath the satire is a genuine plea for courage the courage to think deeply and believe honestly. Heretics is thus not only an entertaining critique but an invitation for readers to ask whether their beliefs are as brave, clear, or meaningful as they imagine.

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