The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2016
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-198502-2 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the modern world.

Second edition, revised and expanded

Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance and erudition against modern philistinism and phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know, he shows, can we see the world as it really is.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 126 x 196 mm
Gewicht 140 g
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte Aphorismen • Philosophieren
ISBN-10 0-14-198502-X / 014198502X
ISBN-13 978-0-14-198502-2 / 9780141985022
Zustand Neuware
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