""This is a book about humanists, but even humanists cannot agree on what a humanist is," declares Sarah Bakewell. Indeed, for centuries now, thinkers, writers, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, and countless others have been searching for and refining a philosophy of the human spirit. Humanism can be found in writings of Plato and Protagoras and in the thought of Confucius. It is ever-present in the work of Michel de Montaigne, and guided...

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, making this writing as pertinent today as it was in the Fifteenth Century.

As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan. In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill...

Musaicum Press presents to you a collection of the most influential works written by the Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from “both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability” (Chicago Tribune).
As Erich Fromm points out, ours is “a life between having and being”—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity...

Maria Diaz, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in a Miami high school. She is intellectual, loves poetry and likes music-from classical to Andean, to tangos-and suffers from insomnia. Sleep intrigues her. She does the math and figures that over a sixty-year span we sleep the staggering sum of twenty years. Where does all that time go? Is it a waste? Or does it have a hidden redeeming value? Finding answers to these questions becomes her quest. She...

Cet ouvrage suit le cours du droit naturel dès son amont socratique jusqu'à son aval contemporain en tenant compte des apports ajoutés par chacun de ces philosophes durant leur parcours qui n'était ni stable ni constant. L'innovation présentée par cette étude paraît dans la vision panoramique et comparative qui surpasse les limites locatives en présentant le portrait universel de l'homme, et cela se reflète sur l'évolution de l'esprit humaniste...

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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Stanley Corngold is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. His many books include The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory; Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature; Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (Princeton); and Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. The first complete account of the ideas and...

Javier Peteiro Cartelle, un científico que ha hecho un esfuerzo encomiable por devolverle a la ciencia la dignidad que la degradación histórica generalizada ha producido en el registro de la verdad, nos ofrece en este libro una selección de textos que se ocupan de la actualidad en la que vivimos y sobrevivimos, hechos desde la perspectiva de la ciencia, la literatura, la poesía, y la fe. Una selección que ha decidido publicar clasificándolos...