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Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.
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In T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, author Michael Kanaan explains the realities of AI from a human-oriented perspective that's easy to comprehend. A recognized national expert and the U.S. Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Kanaan weaves a compelling new view on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning.
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Trivial Book Regarding AI
- De AstroMan en 10-30-20
De: Michael Kanaan
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- De: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- De Joshua Daniel-Wariya en 06-06-19
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- De: Nicholas Carr
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
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It is not consistant, so it is frustrating.
- De Adam Shields en 08-03-12
De: Nicholas Carr
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A Place for Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Julia Winwood
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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From a New York Times best-selling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification.
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You have to love library science
- De A. Yoshida en 10-23-21
De: Judith Flanders
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Native American DNA
- Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
- De: Kim TallBear
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations.
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Using this in class
- De L. McGinty en 08-05-23
De: Kim TallBear
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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Paradox
- De: Margaret Cuonzo
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life.
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To The Point
- De Hendrick Mcdonald en 11-10-15
De: Margaret Cuonzo
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Irony and Sarcasm
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Roger Kreuz
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 4 h y 11 m
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Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis.
De: Roger Kreuz
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Free Will
- De: Mark Balaguer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
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In our daily lives, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are then we have free will. But in recent years, some have argued that free will is an illusion. The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris and the late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findings disprove free will.
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Severely lacking: stay away
- De David James en 07-12-23
De: Mark Balaguer
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Synesthesia
- De: Richard E. Cytowic MD
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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A neurological trait that creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings, synesthesia is examined in this illuminating audiobook by pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic who reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective.
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Interesting read, well written & well narrated.
- De R W en 05-19-18
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Post-Truth
- De: Lee C. McIntyre
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial.
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A politicallly motivated partisan diatribe!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-06-22
De: Lee C. McIntyre
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The Technological Singularity
- De: Murray Shanahan
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" - that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both - has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century.
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Simplistic. Unworthy.
- De Blair en 07-21-17
De: Murray Shanahan
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Paradox
- De: Margaret Cuonzo
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life.
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To The Point
- De Hendrick Mcdonald en 11-10-15
De: Margaret Cuonzo
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Irony and Sarcasm
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Roger Kreuz
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 4 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis.
De: Roger Kreuz
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Free Will
- De: Mark Balaguer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General
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In our daily lives, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are then we have free will. But in recent years, some have argued that free will is an illusion. The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris and the late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findings disprove free will.
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Severely lacking: stay away
- De David James en 07-12-23
De: Mark Balaguer
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Synesthesia
- De: Richard E. Cytowic MD
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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A neurological trait that creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings, synesthesia is examined in this illuminating audiobook by pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic who reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective.
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Interesting read, well written & well narrated.
- De R W en 05-19-18
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Post-Truth
- De: Lee C. McIntyre
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial.
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A politicallly motivated partisan diatribe!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-06-22
De: Lee C. McIntyre
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The Technological Singularity
- De: Murray Shanahan
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" - that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both - has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century.
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Simplistic. Unworthy.
- De Blair en 07-21-17
De: Murray Shanahan
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The Mind-Body Problem
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Jonathan Westphal
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h
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In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self or consciousness or the soul or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions. Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes.
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Multiple chapters without a point
- De J. A. Schroeder en 07-01-17
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Waves
- De: Fredric Raichlen
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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In Waves, Fredric Raichlen traces the evolution of waves, from their generation in the deep ocean to their effects on the coast. He explains, in a way that is readily understandable to nonscientists, both the science of waves themselves and the technology that can be used to protect us against their more extreme forms, including hurricanes and tsunamis.
De: Fredric Raichlen
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Extraterrestrials
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Wade Roush
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activity - but we don't. Where is everybody? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: Is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?
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A much needed nonfiction discourse on ET
- De hammi en 07-21-23
De: Wade Roush
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Understanding Beliefs
- De: Nils J. Nilsson
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
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Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some of our beliefs we call theories, and we are extraordinarily creative at constructing them. Theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity are examples.
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it's okay
- De Question Asker en 10-11-23
De: Nils J. Nilsson
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The Conscious Mind
- De: Zoltan Torey
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
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How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind.
De: Zoltan Torey
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Memes
- In Digital Culture
- De: Limor Shifman
- Narrado por: Karen Saltus
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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In this audiobook, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes - including "Leave Britney Alone", the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent". She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.
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Excellent Overview of Critical Studies on Meme Culture
- De Steven E. Frost en 03-28-18
De: Limor Shifman
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The Book
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Amaranth Borsuk
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive.
De: Amaranth Borsuk
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Haptics
- De: Lynette Jones
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
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Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat screen displays, depends on our knowledge of haptics. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lynette Jones offers an accessible overview of haptics, or active touch sensing, and its applications.
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Informative book
- De J. Shaw en 03-13-23
De: Lynette Jones
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Virtual Reality
- De: Samuel Greengard
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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The author of The Internet of Things presents his latest book.
De: Samuel Greengard
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Cynicism
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Ansgar Allen
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly - "I hate to be a cynic, but...." - before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute. The Cynicism of the ancient Greeks, however, was very different. Bold and shameless, it was committed to transforming the values on which civilization depends.
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astounding circumstances
- De Aarin Joseph King en 04-18-24
De: Ansgar Allen
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Computational Thinking
- De: Peter J. Denning, Matti Tedre
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational sociology. More recently, "computational thinking" has become part of the K-12 curriculum. But what is computational thinking? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible overview.
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Too slow, repetitive for professional programmers
- De Kindle Customer en 04-06-21
De: Peter J. Denning, y otros
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Nihilism
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Nolen Gertz
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
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When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, "an ideology of nothing". Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learnto distinguish what is meaningful from what is meaningless. In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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thought provoking
- De Justin Hunter en 03-13-22
De: Nolen Gertz