The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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UPC:
9780760791066
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2008-01-21
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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Baltasar Gracins Art of Worldly Wisdom offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. The three hundred aphorisms contained here, first published as Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia in 1647, remain remarkably relevant today. The political and social upheavals of Spains Golden Era bear a striking resemblance to 21st century reality--political transformations, economic battles that pit local interests against global forces, competing religious outlooks seeking to shape secular worlds, and new technologies torn between democratization and centralization. Gracins aphorisms, as much poetry as instruction, address us today as practical guides for civility in an often uncivil world, and may serve as invitations to participate in making an uncivil world as civil as possible.

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