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In recent years, due to the great influence of social networks and driven by the COVID-19 crisis, denialist movements, pseudosciences and various anti-scientific attitudes have gained unusual visibility. To counteract the criticism that comes from these sectors, Antonio Diéguez proposes a defense of science...

Narratives create bonds. From them is born what connects and links us. In this way, they found communities and save us from contingency. However, today, when everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling has become a commercial weapon that transforms storytelling into another tool...

This new essay by Byung-Chul Han is a call to safeguard the sources of social adherence and familiarity. The contemporary world rites are perceived as obsolescence and expendable. For Byung-Chul Han, his progressive disappearance leads to the wear and tear of the community and...

We have all stumbled upon stupidity at some point and adopted behaviors that, in hindsight, do not seem sensible at all. Sometimes it is even an excess of reason that makes us stupid, when for example we persist in defending our ideas even if...

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information, and consumption. What used to be the Other is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. This...

Bernard of Clairvaux--who fashioned him to be suitable for his role of filling the world with profound spiritual doctrine? This is the fascinating account of a family that took seriously the challenge to follow Christ. Here is a book that makes centuries disappear, as...

This work invites us to get to know in depth and dialogue with seven great philosophers: Kokai, Shinran, Dogen, Sorai, Norinaga, Nishida and Watsuji. What makes the journey proposed by its author exceptional and fascinating is that it challenges the reader to contemplate together...

With Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English can now access in a single volume the richness and diversity of Japanese philosophy as it has developed throughout history. Leading scholars in the field have translated selections from the writings of more than a hundred philosophical thinkers...

Boshan was a relevant Zen master of the Ming dynasty in China. In the Exhortations he focuses on the importance and inevitability of great doubt, considering it fundamental in Zen practice. In his text, he gives useful advice to practitioners, pointing out common mistakes,...

Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? Using the power of storytelling through images, Roberto Grossi tackles the great denial of our era: man-made climate change. A threat that we try hard not to see and...

Heike Behrend defines her book as an ethnographic account, but also as a "story of rather unheroic entanglements and cultural misunderstandings." It is also a story that collects the experiences and words of the peoples of East Africa. Monkey, clown, witch, spy, evil spirit,...

Artificial intelligence is also making a significant inroads into the art world, and a series of questions that until recently would have seemed unfamiliar to us now, for better or worse, seem familiar: Can a machine be truly creative? What does this mean for...

What moves a person from a state of rest to a state of activation? In this book, the psychologist Manuel Villegas analyzes emotions as an immediate reaction to a stimulus that implies a significant burden on our well-being, both positively and negatively. By their...

An illness, a duel —and even a WhatsApp message— can hurt us, because they affect us at a point where we are especially fragile. In any case, pain always leaves its mark. Sometimes we keep the memory of him, aware that we are what...

When we lose a loved one, the grieving process often begins with a clear farewell. But what happens when that farewell isn't possible, when death isn't confirmed or the person remains physically present but emotionally absent? Ambiguous loss—whether due to disappearance, neurodegenerative illness, or...

In this essay, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency...

Will Johnson shows that the physical aspect of the practice is far too often underemphasized, as it can activate the natural healing energies of both body and mind. The author offers guidance and exercises for working with the posture of meditation and advice on...

Viktor E. Frankl, known worldwide for his work Man in Search of Meaning and as founder of Logotherapy shows that there is an unconscious spirituality in man. From the model of consciousness and the interpretation of dreams, enriched by examples of his clinical practice,...

Drawing upon the model of consciousness and the interpretation of dreams — enriched with examples from his clinical practice — Frankl succeeds in persuading the reader, through empirical means, that a religiosity underlies the human being, one that implies "the ignored presence of God."...

 This book is an original and urgent call to reflection on God from a feminine and decidedly feminist perspective. "What is the proper way to speak of God in the light of women's reality?” This generation needs to live the faith without avoiding this...