user
0
Su pedido

Tu pedido

Su carro de la compra está vacío

Materias

The Bed of Procrustes "Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms"

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The Bed of Procrustes "Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Compartir en:

(0 Comentarios)
Comenta y valora este libro

pvp.14,75 €

Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

  • ISBN:9781846144585
  • Editorial: Allen Lane/Penguin
  • Fecha de la edición:
  • Encuadernación:
  • Dimensiones: 0 cm x 0 cm
  • Nº Pág.:128
  • Idiomas:Español

Materias:

In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts - we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected - and accepting what we don't know - can we see the world as it really is.

Otros libros de Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

Otros libros de Varios