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Klappentext

A collection of thoughts and ideas from 60 great thinkers through the ages, which can be used to improve life today. Covers philosophy, political theory, sociology, art, architecture and literature. From The School of Life, an enterprise which offers good ideas for everyday living.

Zusammenfassung
A unique selection of the greatest thinkers from the fields of philosophy, political theory, sociology, art, architecture and literature, with enjoyable profiles of what they have to teach to us today.

Inhalt

Introduction Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, The Stoics, Epicurus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus Political Theory: Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Ruskin, Henry David Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, William Morris, John Rawls Eastern Philosophy: Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Sen no Rikyu, Matsuo Basho Sociology: St Benedict, Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Margaret Mead, Theodor Adorno, Rachel Carson Psychotherapy: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby Art & Architecture: Andrea Palladio, Johannes Vermeer, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Kahn, Coco Chanel, Jane Jacobs, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Dieter Rams, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Literature: Jane Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf