Ronald Kuil Knihy

Schwere Bücher leicht verpackt oder Was Sie schon immer über den Kategorischen Imperativ wissen wollten. Klassiker der Philosophie, oft ungelesen in den Regalen der Welt, werden hier von Robert Zimmer auf bekömmliche Weise aufbereitet. In einer Kurzbesichtigung führt er den Leser durch 16 zentrale Werke der Philosophiegeschichte, beginnend mit Platons ›Staat‹ bis hin zu John Rawls’ ›Theorie der Gerechtigkeit‹. Zimmer stellt die Kerngedanken jedes Werkes vor, beschreibt deren Entstehung und verknüpft sie mit dem Leben und Denken der jeweiligen Autoren. Diese unterhaltsame und informative philosophische Bildungsreise umfasst unter anderem Platon, Augustinus, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Descartes, Blaise Pascal, John Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Popper und Rawls. Jedes Kapitel bietet Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt der Philosophen und deren Einfluss auf die moderne Philosophie. Das Hörbuch ist im Verlag Komplett-Media erschienen.

This major intellectual biography illuminates the personal and historical events of Descartes's life, from his birth and early years in France to his death in Sweden, his burial, and the fate of his remains. Concerned not only with historical events but also with the development of Descartes's personality, Rodis-Lewis speculates on the effect childhood impressions may have had on his philosophy and scientific theories. She considers in detail his friendships, particularly with Isaac Beeckman and Marin Mersenne. Primarily on the basis of his private correspondence, Rodis-Lewis gives a thorough and balanced discussion of his personality. The Descartes she depicts is by turns generous and unforgiving, arrogant and open-minded, loyal in his friendships but eager for the isolation his work required. Drawing on Descartes's writings and his public and private correspondence, she corrects the errors of earlier biographies and clarifies many obscure episodes in the philosopher's life.

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Even in the near-apocalyptic final months, when the war was plainly lost, the Nazis refused to sue for peace. Historically, this is extremely rare. Drawing on original testimony from ordinary Germans and arch-Nazis alike, award-winning historian Ian Kershaw explores this fascinating question in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the German capitulation in May 1945. Hitler, desperate to avoid a repeat of the "disgraceful" German surrender in 1918, was of course critical to the Third Reich's fanatical determination, but his power was sustained only because those below him were unable, or unwilling, to challenge it. Even as the military situation grew increasingly hopeless, Wehrmacht generals fought on, their orders largely obeyed, and the regime continued its ruthless persecution of Jews, prisoners, and foreign workers. Based on prodigious new research, Kershaw's The End is a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.