A Guide For the Perplexed - Softcover

Schumacher, E F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099480212 ISBN 13: 9780099480211

Verlag: Vintage, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

E F Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence. The questions: How am I to conduct my life? What is the nature of art and nature? What is the meaning of religion? are restored to daylight on Schumacher's map of life by his maxim 'if in doubt show it prominently'. Science is therefore restored to its home territory and its growing imperialism over the fields is reserved.

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Críticas:

"A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas" (Arthur Koestler Observer)

"Schumacher's arguments are invigorating, provoking, and often dramatic" (New Statesman)

"The most exciting philosophical book for ages" (Daily Mail)

"There is a rich store of wisdom and understanding, embedded in the religions of East and West, which our dangerous preoccupation with science has scanted and ignored... This book is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way." (Sunday Telegraph)

Reseña del editor:

A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge, which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0099480212
• ISBN 13: 9780099480211
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192