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En este breve relato iniciático, Philip, un adolescente que viaja en autoestop por Europa, conoce a personajes tan peculiares como enigmáticos: una marquesa extravagante, un antiguo monje benedictino, una joven vampiresa; Cada uno de ellos irá descubriéndole mundos de insospechados atractivos.En Philip y los otros se prefiguran ya algunos de los trabajos posteriores de Cees Nooteboom: laimposibilidad de eludir el destino, la tendencia a la propia destrucción o el juego que se establece entrelos personajes y su creador. Este libro se convierte así en una pieza clave para comprender la trayectoria creativa de un autor siempre lúcido e inquietante.

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En ?Heidegger y el comenzar? Rüdiger Safranski retorna a la arena heideggeriana para explorar de un modo profundamente sugerente los estados de ánimo como vía de acceso a atalayas ontológicamente esclarecedoras. Safranski analiza la experiencia de la nada ?y, así, del transcurso del vacío del tiempo? como base no sólo de una teoría metafísica sino también de un auténtico renacimiento existencial, un nuevo inicio marcada por la libertad radical y la autenticidad. En el segundo ensayo del libro ?Teoría sobre el amor y teoría por amor? Safranski cuestiona el hiato entre teoría y eros típicamente moderno y propone una recuperación platónica de la erótica como dispositivo fenomenológico, esto es, como apertura de un espacio donde el mundo puede mostrarse sin resultar alterado por nuestra intervención cosificadora.

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Here, Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749–1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski scoured Goethe’s oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political turmoil of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age, is thrillingly re-created here. As Safranski shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.

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According to current debates, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures. Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid observation, nobody drew the conclusion that suddenly emerges as evident after reading Rüdiger Safranski’s lucid and timely exploration of the issue: globalization, if it occurs, means a radical change in the human condition. It brings human being in direct confrontation with the world in its totality. Almost unnoticed in broader debate, the scenario of globalization entails a return - in new a radical guise - of the time-honoured question of the ways of being-in-the-world of human beings. In this compelling new book, the philosopher Rüdiger Safranski grapples with the pressing problems of the global age: ‘Big Brother’ states, terrorism, international security and the seeming impossibility of ‘world’ peace. He suggests that the era ofglobalization should not be thought of as that epoch in world history in which all human beings will see themselves in the same, indistinct situation. There will always be, Sanfranski argues, some need for understanding one’s own situation by drawing boundaries and conceptualizing ‘otherness’ and individuality.

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