Фелипе Фернандес-Арместо — библиография

"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the
history of human mental life."—The
Wall Street Journal To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds.
Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps—from the first
Homo sapiens
to the present day.
Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science,
Fernández-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish.
Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans.
A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker,
Out of Our Minds
shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat.

We need a history of truth - though until now no-one has tried to write one. We need it to test the claim that truth is just a name for opinions which suit the demands of society or the convenience of élites. We need to be able to tell whether truth is changeful or eternal, embedded in time or outside it, universal or varying from place to place.
We need to know how we have got to where we are in the history of truth - how our society has come to lose faith in the reality of it and lose

Америго Веспуччи тот самый человек, кто в 1507 году дал своё имя Америке. Заслужил ли он, чтобы целый континент был назван его именем, или нет – споры не утихают по сей день. В этой первой критической биографии Веспуччи мы следуем за ним из Флоренции Лоренцо де Медичи в Севилью Фердинанда и Изабеллы, через Атлантику Колумба к встрече нашего героя с Новым Светом на другом краю океана.
Образ Веспуччи зыбок – остаётся таким же ускользающим, как во флорентийском полусвете его молодости – но так близко мы узнаём его впервые.
Как бы мало мы ни знали о том, что происходило с Веспуччи, и о его собственных поступках, но после прочтения этой книги читатель лучше поймет и знаменитого флорентийца, и эпоху великих географических открытий.