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La demostración y el razonamiento formal pueden gozar de validez en sí mismos, sin referencia a un destinatario. En cambio, la validez de la argumentación no se puede estudiar en su integridad sin conocer al público al que se dirige, sin saber qué significa para el hablante y para el interlocutor, sin saber nada de las circunstancias en las que la argumentación tiene lugar. La verdad es débil al menos en dos aspectos, muy evidentes: a) es posible tener la verdad sin poder hacerlo valer (¿cuántas veces hemos vivido la experiencia de tener razón y que no nos crean?); b) con la verdad se puede engañar, corromper, maleducar: la mejor desinformación suele ser la que dice sólo verdades. Se dice que al final la verdad vence siempre. Yo estoy convencido de que es así, y Aristóteles asegura que «la verdad y la justicia son por su propia naturaleza más fuertes que sus contrarios». Sin embargo, si no queremos esperar al juicio final hay que anticiparle vigor a la verdad. Los dos aspectos de su debilidad nos conducen de la mano a la noción aristotélica de retórica, la «facultad de descubrir lo que es adecuado en cada caso para convencer», que a mí me gusta reformular como sigue: el arte de hacer que la verdad parezca verdadera. ¡No es poco arte! ¿Qué no daría un padre por la capacidad de presentar a sus hijos las cosas de tal manera que éstos las vean del modo adecuado? ¿Qué no daría un maestro? ¿Qué no daría alguien que se dispone a declarar su amor?

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"The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'" by Frank Sidgwick. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797-1 February 1851) was an English writer, who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818), considered as an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.Shelley's mother died less than a month after birth. She was brought up by her father, who offered her a rich, if informal, education and encouraged her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four years old, her father married a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Shelley had a troubled relationship.In 1814 Shelley began a romance with one of her father's political supporters, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister Claire Clairmont, she and Percy travelled to France and travelled through Europe. After her return to England, Shelley was pregnant with Percy's child. For the next two years, she and Percy faced exclusion, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married at the end of 1816 after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife Harriet.In 1816, the couple and their stepsister spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822 her husband drowned when his sailboat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and devoted herself to her son's education and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was marked by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumor that killed her at the age of 53.Until the 1970s, Shelley was best known for her efforts to publish her husband's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which is still widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. The most recent scholarship has given a more comprehensive overview of Shelley's achievements. Scientists have shown increasing interest in her literary work, particularly her novels, including the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel the last man (1826), and her last two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works, such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-1846), support the growing view that Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Shelley's work often argues that cooperation and sympathy, especially practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father William Godwin.Note :– We are offering this book at much discount.

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En este libro se han recopilado y analizado un vasto número de creencias gracias a las cuales ha sido edificada la mitología de la modernidad; esas creencias sirven para describir, sostener e incluso defender, el desarrollo y el progreso de un tipo de sociedad concebido en Occidente desde épocas remotas. El análisis de los mitos de Occidente, aquí enumerados, nos permitirá entender la pertinencia y la profundidad de las críticas que se han hecho, desde siempre, a ese modelo. La deconstrucción de la mitología occidental nos abrirá el camino hacia otros paradigmas con el fin de inspirar en cada lector, en cada lectora, ideas distintas ligadas a formas de vida diferentes, sin duda posibles, y, sobre todo, deseables, en este período de finales de civilización. Buena lectura.

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"Trent's Last Case or The Woman in Black" by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"History of the United States" by Charles A. Beard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"The Devil in Iron" by Robert Ervin Howard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Novela narrada a dos voces en donde el relato de un paciente y la de una psiquiatra se contrastan mostrando versiones distintas en una unidad de salud mental, por un lado, y mundo onírico por el otro. Donde el protagonista conocerá personas extraordinarias, y una mujer de ojos azules que cree reconocer desde su cordura. Llegando a un punto donde las historias convergen y quedará en duda que es lo real. Locura, amor, desesperanza, son temas recurrentes en la obra, así como cada vivencia de un paciente contadas en términos médicos y a manera de cuentos fantásticos.

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"Morning, Evening, and Midnight Hymns" by Thomas Ken. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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La cultura no es una fina piel que podamos separar, cuando mejor nos convenga, de nuestras actividades económicas y políticas cotidianas. Muy al contrario, su núcleo es móvil, inaprehensible y siempre permanece teñido por las transformaciones sociales que se dan a su alrededor y de las que depende tanto su fuerza como su existencia. Ahora bien, sería también un grueso error reducir toda cultura a una simple expresión refleja de la vida económica y política, como si la vida cultural fuera un triste muñeco manipulado al estilo de la ventriloquía. El activismo cultural neoliberal y el marxismo más ortopédico se han manejado, en ocasiones astutamente, en estos espacios de desconexión y vaciamiento de lo cultural. Este libro contiene múltiples historias que parten de esta hipótesis de trabajo, de este horizonte. Tomando como eje las herramientas del romanticismo y el empuje de la crítica cultural, se analizan aquí diversos casos: desde el corazón nihilista y romántico del postpunk en Manchester hasta la perspectiva cultural inserta en el corazón del proyecto hayekiano, pasando por el nacimiento del espectador moderno, por el pensamiento de María Zambrano o la poesía de Alejandra Pizarnik. Entre las historias de este libro hallamos un análisis de la relación de Marx con la poesía o la idea de este respecto a la revolución en España. Un libro de análisis crítico de la cultura contemporánea cuya finalidad sería la de tratar, desde estas múltiples historias, de abrir grietas -aunque sean pequeñas- en el apelmazado modelo cultural en el que nos movemos.

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