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Self-help books are based on the premise that life can be improved. But how does this doctrine fit into a war context? Would their formulas work for an inmate in a Soviet gulag or an Auschwitz prisoner?
This book reviews and defends philosophical pessimism, drawing on authors such as Primo Levi, Jean Améry, Viktor Frankl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emil Cioran, George Orwell, and Simone Weil. Despite the intention of refuting self-help formulas, the reader will find in this book truly useful vital orientations. Because well formulated philosophy is always a solace for the soul and a help when it comes to the business of living.
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PUNTO DE VISTA EDITORES
Punto de Vista Editores is a Publishing House founded in 2013 in Madrid (Spain). We publish humanities non-fiction (History, Literary studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies) and iberoamerican voices in fiction and drama.
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- Publisher Punto de Vista Editores
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788418322518
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleFilosofía para una vida peor. Breviario del pesimismo filosófico del siglo XX
- Copyright Year2016
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