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«The day of a monk begins with cleaning. The interior of the temple, the garden, and the floor of the main hall are swept. But we do not clean because it is dirty or messy, but to rid the spirit of any shadow that clouds it.» With the Cleansing Manual of a Buddhist Monk, Keisuke Matsumoto offers us a text that combines with grace and exquisitely Zen lightness, practical advice and philosophical and spiritual reflections.

Este libro interesa a todos aquellos que tratan con sistemas. En primer lugar, a los científicos que estudian los sistemas científicos; en segundo lugar, la idea de sistema también incumbe a los técnicos, tecnólogos e ingenieros que construyen y manejan máquinas e instituciones. Los médicos, por su parte, tampoco se libran de tratar con sistemas: el digestivo, circulatorio, endocrino nervioso, simpático, etc. Afecta también a los políticos, que tienen que moverse dentro de una multitud de sistemas muy heterogéneos (sistemas políticos, electorales, tributarios, sanitarios o de...

La filosofía analítica tiene más o menos unos cien años, y es ahora la fuerza dominante en la filosofía occidental. El interés por su desarrollo histórico aumenta día a día, pero hasta el presente no se ha dado ningún intento serio de dilucidar cuál sea exactamente su posición actual y de qué manera difiere de la llamada filosofía «continental». En esta obra de extenso alcance, Hans-Johann Glock sostiene que la filosofía analítica es un amplio movimiento sustentado por diversos lazos de influencia y variados aires de «parecido familiar». Tras analizar los pros y los...

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj Žižek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of family resemblances between totalitarianism and modern liberal democracy. Žižek argues that totalitarianism is invariably defined in terms of four things: the Holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the socialist revolutionary project; ethnic and religious...

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed during his time as a prisoner of war, a school teacher, an architect and throughout his years at Cambridge. Always frank and often brutally honest, these letters between Wittgenstein, his brother Paul and his three sisters, Hermine, Margaret and Helene are filled with a familiarity and an intimacy. They allow us to enter the bygone world of an...