The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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 commoditiz…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-196924-4
- EAN: 9780141969244
- Produktnummer: 17835784
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 651 KB
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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