In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Hans-Geor...

The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously, the figure of the sophist, but also the tragic hero, the rhetorician, the tyrant, and the poet. Each of the individual essays shows, in a different way, that the harder one tries to disentangl...

La continuación de «El despertar del Leviatán», la saga superventas de The New York Times en que se basa la exitosa serie de TV The Expanse, producida por Syfy y emitida por Netflix.En Ganímedes, asolada por la guerra y fuente de recursos de los planetas exteriores, una marine de Marte asiste a la aniquilación de su pelotón a manos de un supersoldado monstruoso. En la Tierra, una política de alto rango hace todo lo posible por evitar que vuelva a ...

La novela en que se basa la primera temporada de la serie de TV de Syfy The Expanse .Bienvenidos al futuro...La humanidad ha colonizado el Sistema Solar: Marte, la Luna, el cinturón de asteroides y más allá, pero las estrellas aún están fuera de nuestro alcance. Jim Holden es segundo de a bordo de un transportador de hielo que realiza misiones entre los anillos de Saturno y las es...

The apostle Paul charged the Church to never be lacking in zeal, which compels believers to a life of radical service. Zeal is one of the greatest virtues that we could possibly pass on to the next generation—a zeal for the lost, a zeal for God’s glory, a zeal for His presence, a zeal for godly marriages and families, and a zeal for revival and reformation. Godly zeal will sustain moves of God more than human passion ever could and will energize believers until they have completed their Go...

BECAUSE NOT ALL KRAV MAGA IS THE SAME®This book introduces and codifies big-picture thinking to take you to the next level of self-defense expertise. The material is designed to conform to your strengths; you need not conform to the system.In this latest volume from David Kahn, you will find practical, battle-tested stratagems and insights that are equally applicable across the spectrum of martial arts and fighting systems. The text is supported by 180 dyna...

La quinta entrega de la saga superventas en la que se basa la serie de TV The Expanse .Se han abierto miles de mundos y se ha desatado la mayor fiebre por ocupar el territorio de la historia de la humanidad. A medida que los colonos se marchan en oleadas sucesivas, las estructuras de poder del viejo Sistema Solar comienzan a ceder.Las naves desaparecen sin dejar rastro. De manera clandestina, han empezado a formar...

Así empieza la espectacular trilogía de los autores de The Expanse: La humanidad lucha por su supervivencia en una guerra tan antigua como el universo.Uno de los 20 mejores libros de 2024 según Publishers Weekly.«El comienzo de algo verdaderamente épico.»Fonda Lee«Perfecta. Una space opera en su máxima expresión».Publishers WeeklyDurante sigl...

Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World is an eight-hour audio mini-series, based on the classic by R.L. Stevenson.The adaptation resets the story in the Bayous of Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans, and the Caribbean in 1828. This fully dramatized production stars the voices of Keith David as Long John Silver, John Goodman as Billy Bones, and Glynn Turman as the storyteller, along with members of the Firesign Theatre—David Ossman and Phil Proctor. Th...

La novela en la que se basa la cuarta temporada de la serie de TV The Expanse.Las puertas han abierto el camino a miles de nuevos mundos y la fiebre de la colonización se ha desatado. Los colonos buscan una nueva vida lejos de los planetas natales de la humanidad. Ilo, la primera colonia humana en esta gran nueva frontera, nace entre sangre y fuego.Los colonos independientes se sublevan contra el poder arrollador de una nave colonial corporativa, c...

The modern turn in political philosophy established the ontological primacy of the ego, reducing the community to a mere assemblage of individuals, and led to the repudiation of natural duties in favor of inherent individual rights. The modern project culminated in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose emphasis on radical individuation left human beings both liberated and exiled. Individuals were free to create (and to recreate) themselves anew, but they were simultaneously uprooted from ...

Así acaba todo. El explosivo cierre de la serie superventas galardonada con el Premio Hugo 2020 a la mejor saga y en la que se basa la adaptación de TV The Expanse .«El equivalente, en clave de ciencia ficción, de Canción de hielo y fuego».NPR BooksEl imperio de Laconia ha caído y los mil trescientos sistemas planetarios han logrado liberarse del gobierno de Winston Duarte. Pero el antiguo enemigo ...