Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (36)
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The Language Instinct
How the Mind Creates Language
2024 || Paperback || Steven Pinker || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A definitive account of how language works, how we learn it and how it evolves, from an award-winning cognitive scientist and public intellectual. New edition, including an afterword on the book's origins and influence, and re-jacketed as part of a backlist redesign.
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Speaking Out
Lectures and Speeches 1937-58
2024 || Paperback || Albert Camus || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
2024 || Hardcover || John Sellars || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Letters from a Stoic
Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
2024 || Paperback || Seneca || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
2024 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and the pressure to conform.
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The Communist Manifesto
2024 || Hardcover || Friedrich Engels e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Provides the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions. This book continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.
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Feline Philosophy
Cats and the Meaning of Life
2024 || Paperback || John Gray || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Humanity
2024 || Paperback || Slavoj Zizek || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, The Courage of Hopelessness.
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How To Be a Stoic
2024 || Paperback || Epictetus e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A selection of writings from some of the most iconic Stoics to guide and inspire a more mindful perspective
How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisdom on how to face life's adversities and live well in the world.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves -...
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The Perennial Philosophy
An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
2024 || Paperback || Aldous Huxley || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley
"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."
With great wit and stunning intellect--drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam-...