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The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

Over the last sixty to seventy years, our cultures have undergone an immense shift: the "official" God has become a strange, distant, and for some, non-existent God. Does that mean that God no longer claims a presence and influence in public and private life, or that He is of no interest to 21st-century societies? Lluís Duch explores this exile of God from our present-day societies.

¿Qué relación hay entre pasear y pensar? Muchos de los filósofos más importantes comparten una pasión: caminar al aire libre. Algunos repiten el mismo recorrido cada día y otros no paran de explorar nuevos caminos; hay quienes odian el campo y quienes adoran los parajes sublimes; unos disfrutan a la sombra de limoneros y otros se ocultan en bosques misteriosos. La Naturaleza nunca será un mero decorado para Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Sartre y otros grandes pensadores, sino la dimensión fundamental de algunas de sus más famosas ideas. Esta polémica y delirante crónica de Ramón...

Trabajo/Tesis de Licenciatura del año 2012 en eltema Filosofía - Otras, Nota: 6,8 (de 7), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Instituto de Filosofía), Idioma: Español, Resumen: The main objective of this work is to build a systematization of Pierre Hadot ́s method of interpreting ancient philosophical texts. The kernel of his method is the conviction that, throughout most of the classical antiquity, philosophy was understood and lived mainly as a way of life. Hence, the first chapter introduces Hadot ́s panoramical understanding of the "phenomenon" of philosophy in antiquity and...