McRaney brings his popular blog of the same name to book form. He collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves every day, then pulls back the psychological curtain to explain how people routinely trick themselves using such...
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Auteur:McRaney, DavidSommaire: - Auteur:Dufresne, ToddSommaire:
In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have...
- Auteur:La Chance, MichaëlSommaire:
Avant de rédiger son Discours de la méthode, véritable coup d’État dans la pensée philosophique du XVIIe siècle, le jeune Descartes avait fait trois songes dans une nuit de novembre 1619. Le cerveau en feu de M. De∫cartes revisite ces...
- Auteur:Pinker, StevenSommaire:
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the...
- Auteur:Greer, John MichaelSommaire:
Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular...
