The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
Baltasar Gracián Libri
8 gennaio 1601 – 6 dicembre 1658
Baltasar Gracián fu un gesuita e prosatore spagnolo del Barocco, rinomato per i suoi scritti filosofici. Le sue opere, lodate per la loro profondità e stile, esplorano temi proto-esistenzialisti. Gracián si distingue come il principale teorico e rappresentante dello stile letterario spagnolo noto come Conceptismo, che enfatizza l'arguzia e l'inventiva. I suoi scritti offrono intuizioni senza tempo sulla natura umana e sull'arte di vivere.
How to Use Your Enemies
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world.
"This jewel of a man is very gifted; I assure you that he contains great things." -- King Philip IV of Spain Almost four hundred years ago, in Zaragoza, Spain, Baltasar Gracián began to write what many modern-day scholars consider to be the most prolific and mysterious of his seven works, El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646). It is a treatise that describes the qualities that are needed for a man to become the center of perfection, as he experiences life and its spacious fields of time. Through his mystifying, divinized, and sacred style, he explores the themes of moral and political philosophy, literature, criticism, human nature, morality, and the complexity of social relationships. It is a discourse full of fables, metaphors, allegories, and wordplay that requires the reader to measure himself against the greatness of its matter in order to understand and benefit from its wisdom. Chained to a linguistic barrier for centuries, with its complexity making it nearly impossible to translate into English, this Spanish masterpiece has remained largely unavailable to modern readers until now. This fascinating book, which Friedrich Nietzsche referred to as "the finest and most complicated work to ever come out of Europe," contains all that is needed to become a Master or Matters and a Master of Men.
Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit
Gracián, Baltasar – Logik und Ethik – 14195
Graciáns epochemachende Schrift wurde seit 1832 (seit Schopenhauers übersetzerischer Großtat, die ein eigenes Original schuf) nicht mehr in die deutsche Sprache übertragen. Die gefeierte Neuübersetzung von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht erschließt das Werk neu. Scharfsinnige wie pragmatische Ansichten bündelte Gracián in Maximen, die zum Selbstdenken und zur Selbstüberprüfung herausfordern und einen Leitfaden für ein besseres Leben bilden: Wie erlangt man breites Wissen, einen guten Geschmack? Wie geht man klug mit seinem Umfeld und seinen eigenen Leidenschaften um? »Sagen wir es unumwunden: Die neue Übersetzung des ›Handorakels‹ ist ein Glücksfall sondergleichen, in jedem einzelnen Paragrafen.« (Peter Sloterdijk, DIE ZEIT)
Spis byl napsán jako politickomravní návod pro dobový intelektuální a mocenský typ jihoevropské společnosti 17. stol. Poskytuje rady, jak se má člověk kultivovat v intelektuálně i morálně vyspělou osobnost a jak má působit na své okolí. Kniha zaujme důvtipnou formou, za kterou se skrývá pevná a moderní koncepce lidské osobnosti.
