Grandes mentes y pequeñas cosas : La guía de los filósofos para la vida cotidiana

Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his "Philosophical Dictionary," where he tackled such singular topics as adultery, mountains, and nudity. In 1957, another French thinker, Roland Barthes, reflected in "Mythologies" on masculine passions like wrestling, striptease, and the Citroën DS. Since the dawn of philosophy, great thinkers have been unable to resist applying their brilliant minds not only to the meaning of life, but also to the meaning of coffee, flatulence, and the efficient installation of a boiler. Now, from Wollstonecraft to Wittgenstein, from Lao Tzu to Locke, from Aristotle to Arendt, "Great Minds and Small Things" brings together their most curious observations in a miscellany as entertaining as it is illuminating, making the trivialities of everyday life suddenly seem much more sophisticated.