| Description |
1 online resource (128 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Baltasar Gracián's 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 Spain's 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. Gracián's 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY / General.
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Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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Maxims.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Schroeder, Steven, editor.
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Fischer, Martin, 1879-1962.
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| Added Title |
Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658. Art of worldly wisdom. New York : Barnes & Noble, 2008. 9780760791066 (pbk.) (DLC)2011281079 |
| Standard No. |
9781411428683 |
| ISBN |
9781411428683 (epub) |
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