UN CONTUNDENTE ENSAYO DE UNO DE LOS FILÓSOFOS CON MÁS PROYECCIÓN DEL MOMENTO. Una defensa de la filosofía contra la manipulación intelectual y el totalitarismo emocional Vivimos en una sociedad en la que la tecnología tiene cada vez más protagonismo, donde impera el ruido permanente, la hiperestimulación constante y una violenta rapidez. Un mundo en el que la silenciosa dominación de nuestras emociones gobierna todos los ámbitos de la vida. Ante este escenario, el presente libro propone una filosofía de la resistencia que nos permita cultivar el cuidado de la atención, plantar cara a esa emotiocracia (la dictadura de las emociones propia de la sociedad de consumo), y que nos empuje a desarrollar con compromiso una nueva manera de desear con el fin de ser más conscientes y responsablemente libres frente a los malestares contemporáneos. Pensar y actuar: una revolución intelectual que pasa por dejar de observar la realidad como sujetos pasivos para tomarla en nuestras manos como agentes activos y poder pensarla, sí, pero, sobre todo, transformarla. UNA DEFENSA DE LA FILOSOFÍA COMO UN PENSAR RADICAL Y DISIDENTE, DE SANA OPOSICIÓN A LA REALIDAD QUE NOS VIENE IMPUESTA.

An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on American philosophy, poet, critic, and best-selling novelist George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana Scholarship.

"Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.

Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set against different forms of idealism and subjectivism. Maurizio Ferraris's Manifesto of New Realism takes aim at postmodernism and hermeneutics, arguing against their emphasis on reality as constructed and interpreted. While acknowledging the value of these criticisms of traditional, dogmatic realism, Ferraris insists that the insights of postmodernism have reached a dead end. Calling for the discipline to turn its focus back to truth and the external world, Ferraris's manifesto—which sparked lively debate in Italy and beyond—offers a wiser realism with social and political relevance.

John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.