The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) EPUB
by Baltasar Gracian
Edited by Steven Schroeder
Part of the Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading series
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Baltasar GracinsArt 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 Spains 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. Gracins 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.
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- Publication Date:01/09/2009
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