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The bed of Procrustes

philosophical and practical aphorisms

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An edition of Bed of Procrustes (2010)

The bed of Procrustes

philosophical and practical aphorisms

trade paperback edition, revised and updated

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.67 ·
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  • 23 Want to read
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  • 5 Have read

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
156

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Subjects
Aphorisms and apothegms, New York Times reviewed, Human behavior, Quotations, maxims

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Cover of: El lecho de Procusto
El lecho de Procusto: Aforismos filosóficos y prácticos
Mar 06, 2018, Ediciones Paidós
hardcover in Spanish
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The bed of Procrustes: philosophical and practical aphorisms
2016, Random House
in English - trade paperback edition, revised and updated
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Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
2011, Random House
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
2011, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
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Table of Contents

Preludes
Counter narratives
Matters ontological
The sacred and the profane
Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism
Charming and less charming sucker problems
Theseus, or, Living the Paleo life
The republic of letters
The universal and the particular
Fooled by randomness
Aesthetics
Ethics
Robustness and antifragility
The ludic fallacy and domain dependence
Epistemology and subtractive knowledge
The scandal of prediction
Being a philosopher and managing to remain one
Economic life and other very vulgar subjects
The sage, the weak, and the magnificent
The implicit and the explicit
On the varieties of love and nonlove
The end.

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"Revised and updated'--Cover.

"Now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover.

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Library of Congress
PN6271 .T35 2016, PN6271.T35 2016

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xiii, 156 pages
Number of pages
156

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OL27223248M
ISBN 10
0812982401
ISBN 13
9780812982404
OCLC/WorldCat
1001864875, 949639880

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