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Teun rated The embodied mind: 5 stars
Francisco J. Varela: The embodied mind (2016, The MIT Press)
The embodied mind by Francisco J. Varela
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive …
Teun rated The overstory: 5 stars
The overstory by Richard Powers
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …
Teun rated Against Nature: 3 stars
Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human …
Teun rated Why Look At Animals: 5 stars
Teun rated Eclipse of reason: 4 stars
Max Horkheimer: Eclipse of reason (2013, Bloomsbury)
Eclipse of reason by Max Horkheimer (Bloomsbury revelations)
Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of …
Teun rated We have never been modern: 4 stars
Teun rated The Enlightenment: 4 stars
The Enlightenment by Robertson, John (Very short introductions -- 443)
A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, …
Teun rated Hints voor een diagnose, naar aanleiding van Kant: 5 stars
Hints voor een diagnose, naar aanleiding van Kant by O. D. Duintjer (Ambo-wijsgerig)
Teun rated Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: 3 stars
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Teaches the principles and concepts of philosophy through one-liner jokes, vaudeville humor, cartoons, and limericks, in an irreverent introduction to …
Teun rated The History of Cinema: 4 stars
The History of Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
119 pages : 18 cm
Teun rated A short history of modern philosophy: 4 stars
A short history of modern philosophy by Roger Scruton
A Short History of Modern Philosophy is a lucid, challenging and up-to-date survey of the philosophers and philosophies from the …
Just kids by Patti Smith
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the …
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens (Hardcover, 2014, Harvill Secker)
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en …