Driving with Plato (Pocket)
avSmith, Robert Rowland
ISBN: 9781846683060 - UTGIVEN: 2011-10-13If life is meaningless as Sartre suggests, what is the point of being born? What does Freud have to say about losing one's virginity or Nietzsche about having a mid-life crisis? Drawing on philosophy, art, literature and psychology, this book explores the real meaning of the hoops we all have to jum[...]
Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones (Häftad)
avRobert Rowland Smith
ISBN: 9781439186886 - UTGIVEN: 2012-02"This book is elegant proof that philosophy doesn't have to be fusty and musty" (A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of "The Year of Living Biblically").
Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let his[...]
On Modern Poetry (Pocket)
avRobert Rowland Smith
ISBN: 9781441174222 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07-12Explores the divide between practical criticism and theory in 20th century criticism to propose a new way of reading poetry. This book considers such topics as rhyme, poetic voice and language.[...]
The Reality Test (Häftad)
avRobert Rowland Smith
ISBN: 9781781250792 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rat[...]
Aamiaisella Sokrateen kanssa (Inbunden)
avRobert Rowland Smith
ISBN: 9789512353279 - UTGIVEN: 2011Moni filosofian peruskysymys saa ilmentymänsä ihmisen arkielämässä, ja arjen avulla moni "vaikea" asia on myös helpoiten käsitettävissä. Kirjan 18 esseemäisessä luvussa eletään päivä nykyihmisen peruselämää: herätään, syödään, käydään töissä, lääkärissä ja ostoksilla[...]
