This book primarily addresses one question: Why do Americans--and American authors in particular--profess such moral sentiments while engaging so little in the traditionally moralistic literary genres of maxim and fable? As an American who has spent a good deal of time studying …
Humain, trop humain
by Kremer-Marietti, Angèle, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
fromLivre de Poche
Humain, trop humain
by Kremer-Marietti, Angèle, Nietzsche, Friedrich
fromClassiques de la philosophie
I haven't made a single mistake in my life. I've just made a lot of good decisions that went really badly. Try as we might, we simply can't imagine what our world would now look like, had our forefathers decided to use asparagus instead of electricity. In Humid, All Too Humid, s…
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In Humid, All Too Humid, social commentator Dominic Pettman curates the overheated thoughts of his own feverish mind, in response to a world struggling with unprecedented levels of cultural climate change. The book takes the form of aphorism, witticism, maxim, axiom, dictum, qui…
Introduction -- Approach -- You have to speculate to accumulate -- Money doesn't grow on trees -- Money makes the world go round -- Money talks -- It's better to be born lucky than rich -- New proverbs, a new contract -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2
Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-be…
Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-be…
Recueil de 2.500 proverbes et 25.000 citations qui sont autant de conseils, de constatations banales que d'observations sur la vie courante et sur les rapports à autrui. Pour chacune de ces sentences, leur signification, leur origine, leur histoire et leurs transformations succe…
