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Author : Sam Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788889091326
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (913 download)
Download or read book La fine della fede. Religione, terrore e il futuro della ragione written by Sam Harris and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039306672X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason written by Sam Harris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-09-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."—Natalie Angier, New York Times In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is both secular and humanistic. Winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780743268097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The End of Faith written by Sam Harris and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.
Author : Lawrence Heyworth Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sulla religione dell' Avesta written by Lawrence Heyworth Mills and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salvador Giner
Publisher : Bollati Boringhieri
ISBN 13 : 8833975185
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (339 download)
Download or read book L’avvenire della religione written by Salvador Giner and published by Bollati Boringhieri. This book was released on 2017-02-02T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sono trascorsi novant’anni da quando Sigmund Freud intitolò il suo saggio sulla religione L’avvenire di un’illusione. Oggi quell’«illusione» non ha assunto affatto connotati residuali. Anzi, in suo nome si continua ferocemente a versare il sangue, confermando la sentenza di Lucrezio sugli atti scellerati a cui può indurre. In un contesto dominato dalle cronache dell’efferatezza fondamentalista e polarizzato tra gli opposti fanatismi di chi brandisce un credo e chi si appella a pregiudiziali antireligiose, la voce di Salvador Giner si distingue innanzi tutto per la sua ispirazione: un mite umanismo laico, una terzietà guidata dal principio di cautela, che si rivela però di grande potenza riflessiva nel formulare con chiarezza gli interrogativi essenziali, senza cedere alle semplificazioni di chi estrapola tendenze passate per proiettarle sul futuro. Più che prendere posizione nel dibattito sulle basi neurologiche innate o sulla acquisizione culturale della fede, Giner ragiona sulle ambivalenze della credenza, sulla non-linearità del «disincantamento del mondo», sul rapporto tra declino dei culti e presenza di religiosità secolari, sulla compatibilità tra modernità avanzata e fede nel soprannaturale – e quindi sulla plausibilità di una secolarizzazione integrale –, e su chi abbia titolo a ritenersi tollerante. Proprio quell’umanismo che «non mette in discussione la verità della dimensione simbolica e mitica» aiuta a comprendere il senso complessivo della devozione nella società odierna, e a ipotizzarne il peso nel mondo di domani.
Author : Simone Luzzatto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110528231
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Discourse on the State of the Jews written by Simone Luzzatto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Author : Pietro Rossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110420724
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Boundaries of Europe written by Pietro Rossi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world.From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.
Author : Edith Bruck
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 0966491378
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Who Loves You Like this written by Edith Bruck and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood destroyed.
Author : Gabriele D'Annunzio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987463784
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Pescara Tales (1902) written by Gabriele D'Annunzio and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting for his collection of eighteen stories by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) was the Adriatic seaport of Pescara and its hinterland in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the author depicting events and personalities from the time of his youth, but also drawing from bygone incidents that were yet memorable in the area's folk history. Pescara may not have had the cachet of celebrated cities such as Venice or Florence, but sympathetically and wryly revealed here by the pen of one of Italy's great writers it lives and breathes with a vitality probably best compared to that of James Joyce's 'dear dirty Dublin'. Indeed Joyce, who admired D'Annunzio, may well have been inspired by the Italian's cameos of small-town life, his parade of saints, voluptuaries and reprobates, their repressions, obsessions, individual dissolutions, collective explosions of anarchy, and their aptness for bizarre behavior that extended from the catatonic to the manic. D'Annunzio came to recognize just how exotic his native region was after he had left it for Rome, where he worked for some years as a journalist and essay writer in the employ of various literary magazines. His Abruzzo articles, and especially those in which he records examples of extraordinary devotional behavior (akin to what Mark Twain was witnessing at that time on the banks of the Ganges), became the basis of the stories in this collection. D'Annunzio was a published poet at the age of sixteen, and his verse has never been absent from the Western Canon since. Something of his painterly style, the layered brushwork of his descriptions, the gorgeous romantic renderings of rural scenes and the moods of the sea, his celebrations of sensuality, his aesthete's fascination with all the possible bodily conditions, from the virginal-voluptuous to the decayed and moribund (he has been hailed as 'the body's poet'), will amaze and delight the reader even in the blandest and most dictionary-dependent translation. The present one is no such, however. Vladislav Zhukov is an experienced translator who has rendered works from four languages into English, including a substantial book of poetry, three volumes of short stories, and a novel (all available on Amazon.com). His knowledge of Italian is that of someone who acquired the language while living in Italy during his youth.
Author : Tiziano Terzani
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Goodnight, Mister Lenin written by Tiziano Terzani and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316007722
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book New Moon written by Stephenie Meyer and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From evil vampires to a mysterious pack of wolves, new threats of danger and vengeance test Bella and Edward's romance in the second book of the irresistible Twilight saga. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning. Bella and Edward face a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times
Author : Alberto Fortis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Travels Into Dalmatia written by Alberto Fortis and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603352X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book On Tyranny written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.
Author : Anna Proudfoot
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415331647
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Modern Italian Grammar written by Anna Proudfoot and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the Modern Italian Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Italian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Implementing feedback from users of the first edition, this text includes clearer explanations, as well as a greater emphasis on areas of particular difficulty for learners of Italian. Divided into two sections, the book covers: traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives language functions and notions such as giving and seeking information, describing processes and results, and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. This is the ideal reference grammar for learners of Italian at all levels, from beginner to advanced. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is needed and a glossary of grammatical terms is provided. This Grammar is complemented by the Modern Italian Grammar Workbook Second Edition which features related exercises and activities.
Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141938870
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Behind the Door written by Giorgio Bassani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence The years lived since then have not, in the end, been of any use: I haven't managed to remedy the suffering which has remained there like a hidden wound, secretly bleeding. In the fourth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle, Bassani paints a moving portrait of a 1930s childhood in which even the familiar classroom and playground dramas begin to reflect the sinister forces at work in fascist Italy. This powerful tale of friendship and rivalry in the face of the ever encroaching spectre of adulthood adds yet another intricate thread to Bassani's rich tapestry of his native city, Ferrara. 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
Author : Silvio D'Arzo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810160019
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The House of Others written by Silvio D'Arzo and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illegitimate son of a fortune teller, Ezio Comparoni (1920-52) never knew his father, rarely left his home town, and admitted no one to his home. His deliberate obscurity was compounded by his use of many pseudonyms, including Silvio d'Arzo, under which he wrote the remarkable novella and three stories collected in The House of Others. The novella The House of Others is among the rare perfect works of twentieth century fiction. In a desolate mountain village an old woman visits the parish priest, ostensibly to ask about dissolving a marriage. Gradually, as she probes for information on "special cases"--cases in which what is obviously wrong can also be irrefutably right--it becomes clear her true question is whether or not she might take her own life. The question is metaphysical, involving not only the woman's life but the priest's; and to it he has no answer.
Author : Plinio Correa De Oliveira
Publisher : American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family
ISBN 13 : 9781877905179
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Revolution and Counter-Revolution written by Plinio Correa De Oliveira and published by American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anything characterizes our times, it is a sense of pervading chaos. In every field of human endeavor, the windstorms of change are fast altering the ways we live. Contemporary man is no longer anchored in certainties and thus has lost sight of who he is, where he comes from and where he is going. If there is a single book that can shed light amid the postmodern darkness, this is it.
