GILLES LIPOVETSKY SELECTED SUMMARIES

We have summarized the essential of the following texts: From POLITICAL ESSAYS, "The crisis of the Welfare State and the depletion of the utopian energies", from THEORY AND PRAXIS, "The classsical doctrine of politics and its relationships with philosophy", a small fragment of "Science and technique as ideology and the article "Modernity, an uncomplete project".

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

¿Qué es lo que hace que hombres y mujeres se transformen en héroes y heroínas? ¿Sus naves espaciales? ¿Las últimas tecnologías? Si queréis conocer a superhombres y supermujeres de verdad, buscadlos entre estas páginas. Los protagonistas de las más inimaginables aventuras son los héroes y las heroínas de la antigua Grecia. A partir de mitos de la tradición clásica, se repasan algunas de las figuras y tópicos más representativos de nuestro tiempo.

3 million years ago, men built the first stone tools for hunting. 2 million years ago, men walked in a completely upright position and had already discovered fire. 1 million years ago, men organized themselves in groups... Okay, okay, but what about the women? Where were the women in the meantime?

Arsenio Colinas es un ladrón de guante blanco que actúa sin emplear la violencia. Su última víctima es la condesa de Tellington, una anciana mujer muy rica poco merecedora de su fortuna, a quien acaba de robarle sus joyas más valiosas conocidas como “los instantes perfectos”. Pero la inteligente nieta de la condesa, Cecilia, se cruzará inesperadamente en el camino de nuestro ladrón. Juntos descubrirán que las joyas robadas tienen un valor personal incalculable.