PHILOSOPHY BOOKS - Page 22

Franco Venturi
Giuliio Einaudi Editore

Giuliano Imperatore
Edizioni Alkaest

Luigi Claudio di Saint-Martin
Edizioni Bastogi

AA.VV.
Jaca Book-Città Nuova

AA.VV.
Editrice Morcelliana

Aristotele
Editori Laterza

Nicoletta Vallorani, Simona Bertacco
Cisalpino

Marco Aurelio
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Il senso della vita e la necessità di una morale nelle parole del grande principe-filosofo romano, imperatore del più grande regno di tutti i tempi. La specificità dello spirito umano, il valore del presente, il dovere, la libertà interiore, la felicità nell'accettazione di un disegno superiore e nell'agire per il bene comune.

Blaise Pascal
Giulio Einaudi editore

Enrico Cantore
EDB Edizioni dehoniane

Jean Paul Sartre
Librairie Félix Alcan

Glauco Giuliano
Mimesis Edizioni

Glauco Giuliano
Edizioni Torre d'Ercole

Yi-Fu Tuan
The Johns Hopkins University Press

Acclaimed cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers humanity's enduring desire to escape reality— and embrace alternatives such as love, culture, and Disneyworld

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland—all are among the most recent monuments in our efforts to escape the constraints and uncertainties of life—ultimately, those imposed by nature. "What cultural product," Tuan asks, "is not escape?" In his new book, the capstone of a celebrated career, Tuan shows that escapism is an inescapable component of human thought and culture.

George Crowder
Polity Press

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George Crowder provides both an accessible introduction to Berlin's ideas and an original contribution to political theory.

Berlin's range of interests and learning was vast but united by a single overarching project: the uncovering of the conceptual roots of twentieth-century totalitarianism. He traces these through three levels of analysis: the distortion of the concept of freedom by thinkers such as Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel and Marx; the scientism of the Enlightenment and irrationalism of the Counter-Enlightenment and romanticism; and moral monism, the idea that all ethical questions can be answered by reference to a single moral law. Against monism, Berlin asserts the claims of value pluralism, which he aligns with a politics of liberal moderation.

In this new assessment, Crowder argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its liberal and pluralist elements. Crowder goes on to suggest how that tension can be resolved by appeal to arguments that go beyond the case actually presented by Berlin but which remain within the spirit of his general outlook.

Nicola Matteucci
Il Mulino

Catherine Chalier
La nuit serveillée

Platone
La vita felice

Maria Sticco
Società editrice Vita e Pensiero

Emilio Oggioni
Casa Editrice Rondinella Alfredo

Régis Debray
Éditions Gallimard

Giuseppe Sermonti
Dino Editori

Luigi Marino
Principato

Edmund Husserl
Editori Laterza

La "Einleitung in die Ethik" raccoglie le fortunate lezioni tenute da Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) all'Università di Friburgo nel 1920 e nel 1924, frutto di una lunga riflessione del fondatore della fenomenologia su etica e morale. Attraverso un confronto serrato con i maggiori filosofi della tradizione occidentale, dagli antichi greci a Thomas Hobbes e ai moralisti inglesi, e mediante un'articolata analisi dei testi centrali di David Hume e Immanuel Kant, Husserl elabora una complessa fenomenologia dell'etica, incentrata sull'autonomia decisionale del soggetto e su una nozione di dovere che coniuga "a priori formale" e sensibilità materiale. Si tratta di una prospettiva filosofica nuova nel panorama delle etiche filosofiche contemporanee di impostazione razionalista.