We human beings had no say in existing-we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are baffled,...
Bryan Magee ofrece un sustancioso acercamiento al joven Wagner y a sus primeras óperas. A partir de ahí, el autor enfoca su interés en estudiar y exponer la influencia de la filosofía en las óperas del músico;...
Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived"...
The author places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, giving a detailed study of the links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.
Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the strand of philosophical inquiry through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosop...
Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction...