Manual de Estoicismo

Propuesta para una etica en que se fundamente la propia condicion humana, siendo en la naturaleza del hombre donde radican tanto el bien como el mal y, con ellos, la constitutiva necesidad de valoracion. El hilo conductor del libro es, en suma, la preeminencia del destino etico del hombre y su aportacion a una propuesta de una etica autonoma.

The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

Después de las dos guerras mundiales, el léxico conceptual moderno, tan fuertemente embebido de categorías teológico-políticas, ya no está en condiciones de desatar los nudos que desde muchos puntos nos constriñen. Lo cual no quiere decir que haya que rechazarlo en bloque, ni siquiera en sus segmentos individuales como, por ejemplo, el de persona-, sino inscribirlo en un horizonte a partir del cual se pongan finalmente de manifiesto sus contradicciones más visibles, para hacer posible, necesaria, la apertura de nuevos espacios del pensamiento. Si no existe un sujeto individual...

Tao Te Ching is to Taoism what the Bible is to Catholicism, or the Quran to Islam. It is not known for certain when it was written, although many different versions exist. There are even those who doubt that its author was Lao Tsé, venerated today in much of the East. Originally written as instruction for leaders, it is divided into short chapters where the characteristics of Tao are described. An example of balance, harmony, and communion with the natural course of events, "Tao" is a path of self-knowledge that draws the human being closer to wisdom and spiritual completeness. Readers of...