The Bed of Procrustes
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| Vydavatel: | Penguin Books Ltd |
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| Jazyk: | anglicky |
| Datum vydání: | 02.12.2010 |
| Formát: | 204 x 138 x 17 mm; Knihy - vázané; 128 stran |
Anotace
In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts - we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected - and accepting what we don't know - can we see the world as it really is.
Kategorie
- Knihy / Učebnice / Jazyky / Angličtina / Čtení v angličtině
- Knihy / Cizojazyčné knihy / Anglická literatura
Knihovnické kódy
- EAN: 9781846144585
