Alain: 2045 books

Book cover of The Communist Hypothesis
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain...
Book cover of Controversies

Controversies

Politics and Philosophy in our Time

by Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018

Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red Years" at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was already taking his distance from it. Over the years,...
Book cover of Concept and Form, Volume 2

Concept and Form, Volume 2

Interviews and essays on Cahiers pour l'Analyse

by Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Edward Baring
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the...
Book cover of Happiness
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019

'All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it's not worth an hour of trouble' claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy: what is happiness? And what do I need to do to be happy? The desire to be happy is one of our most universal goals...
Book cover of Come Proust può cambiarvi la vita
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 26, 2015

Il nome di Proust suscita in voi un certo timore reverenziale? Non è il caso di sentirsi troppo intimiditi di fronte a lui, ci suggerisce Alain de Botton in questo libro. Vale la pena semmai di trarre profitto dalla sofferta esperienza del grande scrittore francese, perché nessuno meglio di chi...
Book cover of Portraits-souvenirs
by Alain DUHAMEL
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2013

Alain Duhamel excelle dans les portraits politiques. Il nous livre ici, d'une façon très personnelle, les grandes rencontres de sa carrière. " J'ai toujours voulu être journalistes politique et tous les lieux d'expressions m'ont attiré : radio, télévision, presse écrite. La chance...
Book cover of Je communique avec les défunts
by Alain Joseph Bellet
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2012

Confronté depuis l'âge de six ans à des phénomènes paranormaux, Alain Joseph Bellet raconte dans ce récit autobiographique la naissance et l'évolution de ses facultés médiumniques, mais aussi ses difficultés à les accepter et à les partager. Une histoire jalonnée d'événements extraordinaires,...
Book cover of Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas
by Alain C. Dexter
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up, don’t be shy, and enter the rhyming gyre of glosas, forty-four line rock operas, poetic pas de deux, created by troubadours of the medieval Spanish courts. Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas features eighteen dramatic mini-tales, introduced by quatrains...
Book cover of Il corso dell'amore
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 8, 2016

«Il ritorno di Alain de Botton al genere che l’ha reso famoso... L’amore è il tema che più si adatta alla sua scrittura aforistica: questo romanzo conferma il suo talento nel fissare sulla pagina le nostre speranze e le nostre insicurezze.» The New York Times «Commovente, esilarante,...
Book cover of L'importanza di essere amati
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 26, 2015

C’è una forma di ansia molto diffusa ai giorni nostri. Alain de Botton la definisce «ansia da status», ed è generata da ciò che gli altri pensano di noi, in famiglia, sul lavoro, nella cerchia di amici e conoscenti. È un bisogno di riconoscimento sociale che cela un più profondo desiderio...
Book cover of Le consolazioni della filosofia
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016

«Un invito a adottare la filosofia come uno ‘stile di vita’... o come un efficace terapia contro il male di vivere.» IL SOLE 24 ORE La filosofia è inutile se non cura i turbamenti dell’anima, così come la medicina che non cura i dolori del corpo. Guidato da questo principio di Epicuro,...
Book cover of L'immanence des vérités
by Alain Badiou
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2018

Le socle philosophique de l’œuvre multiforme d’Alain Badiou (théâtre, romans, essais esthétiques ou politiques, éloges, polémiques…) est déposé dans trois grands livres, qui constituent une sorte de saga métaphysique  : L’être et l’événement (1988), Logiques des mondes (2006)...
Book cover of Paul Claudel
by Alain-Fournier
Language: French
Release Date: August 6, 2013

Paul Claudel Alain-Fournier, écrivain français (1886-1914) Ce livre numérique présente «Paul Claudel», de Alain-Fournier, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes...
Book cover of Trost der Philosophie

Trost der Philosophie

Eine Gebrauchsanweisung

by Alain de Botton
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Ungeliebt? Geldsorgen? Frust? ? Liebeskummer? Ihnen kann geholfen werden! Geistreich und originell untersucht Alain de Botton, welche Tröstungen die großen Philosophen für die Lebensprobleme moderner Zeitgenossen bereithalten: Was raten uns Sokrates, Epikur, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer und...
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