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Schopenhauer, fue contemporáneo de Goethe, Fichte y Napoleón. Viajó por Europa en su niñez y aprendió a pensar tanto desde la experiencia como desde los libros; dejó una obra admirada por autores de la talla de Nietzsche, Tolstoi o Thomas Mann. Hoy, más que un simple nombre en la historia de la filosofía, es un icono cultural. Este volumen presenta una exposición clara y amena de su vida dirigida a un público mayoritario. Conociendo al Schopenhauer humano, tal vez pueda comprenderse mejor su singular obra filosófica.

Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's first woman photographer, and her career is exceptional both for its remarkable range and for the compelling quality of her work. Approaching photography from multiple angles, she worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, and professional portraitist, while also creating intensely personal images of people, places, and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, as an inspiring teacher of photography, as friend of innumerable artists and writers (many of whom she photographed), and as...

En agosto de 1963, el autor se dirigió a Hiroshima para hacer un reportaje sobre la novena conferencia mundial contra las armas nucleares. Oé se interesó de inmediato por los testimonios de los olvidados del 6 de agosto de 1945: ancianos condenados a la s

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...