Julian Baggini
Autor/a de The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Sobre l'autor
Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books including How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (2018); A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World (2018); The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World (2017), and The Pig that mostra'n més Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments (2010). He was the founding editor of The Philosopher's Magazine and has worked with the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Prospect and Aeon, and makes regular appearances on radio and television. He is Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. His website is www.microphilosophy.net. mostra'n menys
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Obres de Julian Baggini
The Duck That Won the Lottery: 100 New Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher (2008) 234 exemplars
The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Modern Dilemmas. Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro (2012) 41 exemplars
How to Think like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking (2023) 29 exemplars
Philosopher's Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts & Methods (Paperback, 2010) 2ND EDITION (2010) 2 exemplars
30-Second Philosophies: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute 2 exemplars
Il tassista, il poeta e il senso della vita. Piccole risposte di filosofia quotidiana (2007) 1 exemplars
The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 51 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus : Biedermann und die Brandstifter - von Max Frisch - Spielzeit 2022/23 (2022) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
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- Nom normalitzat
- Baggini, Julian
- Data de naixement
- 1968-09-09
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Folkstone, England, UK
- Educació
- University College London (Ph.D|1996)
Reading University (BA|1990) - Professions
- philosopher
journalist
editor - Organitzacions
- Royal Institute of Philosophers
Society of Authors
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 45
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 4,344
- Popularitat
- #5,775
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 65
- ISBN
- 226
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 2
OK. I think it does that. Not easy to do but I think they have achieved their objective and it's rather like having a lecturer speaking about the various texts....but, to get the most out of it one still needs to read the originals: slowly, critically and analytically.
The six books selected for this volume represent a broad spread of philosophy's great literature. Three are indisputably classics: Plato's Republic, Descartes's Meditations and Hume's Enquiry.
Mill's On Liberty is a seminal contribution to political philosophy and ethics, and represents one of the most influential arguments for liberalism.
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Eviland Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism however spring from a somewhat different tradition. Western philosophy since the late nineteenth century divides into two divergent traditions: the Anglo-American 'Analytic' school and the European 'Continental' school. Nietzsche can be seen as a forerunner of existentialism and an influence upon elements of the later European 'post-modern' philosophy. Sartre can be seen as a development out of the Franco-German 'phenomenological' school, which began with Husserl and Heidegger. However, Nietzsche is notoriously enigmatic, ambiguous and open interpretation,
Sartre's masterwork, Being and Nothingness, is a dense doorstop of a tome. The purpose of this book is therefore to help beginners approach these somewhat daunting thinkers — Nietzsche, through a commentary on arguably his most popular and accessible work, and Sartre, through an exploration of the brief popular account of existentialism which was originally a public lecture.
The authors say that "Having read this book slowly, critically and analytically, our hope is that you will be able to read the original texts themselves in exactly the same way".
I'ver actually done that for three of the works and have read Nietzsche's work without gaining much understanding. And have never tried with Satre's masterwork. ...though I've read abstracts like the current book. My hope was that the current book would act like a critical refresher for me...and I think it's done that. I especially like the way that they hav e added their own critical assessments of the arguments and how they have stood the test of time and critical re view by other philosophers.
Happy to give the book five stars.… (més)