LITTLE KNOWLEDGE (Brush Up Your Classics)

by Michael Macrone (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  The third in the Brush up your Classics series, this book contains a range of ideas in a form which is intended to be accessible and entertaining. From philosophy to psychology, politics to economics, religion to inspiration, it sets out provide an enlightened review of the great thoughts and their creators. It elucidates the thoughts, theories and declarations that have defined and developed the core of Western civilization over the millennia, from the classics through the Renaissance to the information revolution. The book progresses through the classical thinkers: Archimedes, Plato and St Augustine to Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau and Kant, to Nietzche, Einstein and Chomsky to McCluhan, Derrida and Lacan, translating the most significant -isms and -ologies into clear stories.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Why did Archimedes jump from his bath and run naked through the streets shouting 'Eureka!'? What is a quantum and where does it leap? Do you know your id from your ego? Does God play dice? This books answers all those questions and more, taking the revolutionary and perplexing ideas of Western thought and extracting their essence. From Greek philosophy to contemporary economics, physics and architecture, A Little Knowledge covers some of the most often heard but least understood theories and explains them simply and entertainingly, including: Existentialism; The Oedipus Complex; Original Sin; 'I think, therefore I am'; Fuzzy Logic; The Big Bang; and 'Religion is the Opium of the People'.