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  • - Reflections in Memoriam
    by Babette Babich
    £15.49

  • - Die Wissenschaft Unter Der Optik Des Keunstlers Zu Sehn, Die Kunst Aber Unter Der Des Lebens
    by Babette Babich
    £61.99

  • - Life Reflections
    by Babette Babich
    £13.49

    Epicurus provides a recipe for happiness, beginning with the reminder that happiness, at the end of the day, is the absence of suffering. This reflection can be epitomized in the Epicurean tradition in the fourfold list summarized in Philodemus, 1. Don?t fear the gods; 2. Don?t worry about death; 3. What is good is easy to get; 4. What is terrible is easy to endure. This book discusses the simple art of happiness. But is that all it takes? Famously, Epicurus offers a more memorable and personable version: a little garden, some figs, small cheeses, a few friends? This idea of sufficiency suggests that the ingredients of happiness are available to nearly everyone (Epicurus counted women and slaves in his school). But this modest list is also elusive. This, and no more, is the measure of happiness.

  • - Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology
    by Babette Babich
    £29.49 - 137.49

    This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah embody, acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today.

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