LIBROS DE FILOSOFÍA - Página 13

Guido Alliney, Luciano Cova
Leo S.Olschki Editore

Georges Gusdorf
ECIG - Edizioni Culturali Internazionali

Dario M. Cosi
Marsilio editori

Giuliano Imperatore
Edizioni Alkaest

AA.VV.
Editrice Morcelliana

Aristotele
Editori Laterza

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

Régis Debray
Éditions Gallimard

Giuseppe Sermonti
Dino Editori

Luigi Marino
Principato

Mario Galzigna
Bertani editore

Association des sociétés de philosophie de langue française
Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles

Vincent Cordonnier
Episteme editrice

Gianni Vattimo
Laterza

L'altra faccia di un mondo sempre più complesso e tecnologizzato è "l'alleggerimento", l'abbandono di ideali assoluti e progetti ambiziosi, rivelatisi i primi insostenibili e i secondi irrealizzabili. Gli autori dei saggi contenuti nel volume intrecciano antropologie, etiche, metafisiche diverse, facendo convergere attorno a questo punto nodale della condizione odierna riflessioni di Nietzsche e Gehlen, Husserl e Heidegger, e altri pensatori ancora, senza dimenticare poeti come Valéry e Michelstaedter.

Eugenio Lecaldano
UTET Libreria

Il volume si propone di offrire un quadro sistematico delle principali concezioni filosofiche oggi operanti, sulla natura dei problemi morali, sui modi di discutere e ragionare intorno a essi e sui princìpi validi per risolverli, nonché una valutazione critica delle teorie discusse.

Michel Foucault
Giulio Einaudi Editore

Domenico Venturelli
Morcelliana

Giuseppe Mario Pizzuti
Edizioni Ermes

Giovanni Vecchi
Società Editrice «Vita e Pensiero»

Vittorio De Caprariis, Eugenio Montale, Leo Valiani
Edizioni di Comunità