As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan
Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is
this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered
philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions,
its beauty. What Penaluna didn't realize was that philosophy - at
least the canon that's taught in Western universities, as well as
the culture that surrounds it - would slowly grind her down through
its devaluation of women and their minds. Women were nowhere in her
curriculum, and feminist philosophy was dismissed as marginal,
unserious.Until Penaluna came across the work of a
seventeenth-century woman named Damaris Cudworth Masham. Reading
Masham's work was like reaching through time: writing three hundred
years ago, Masham was speaking directly to her about knowledge and
God, but also the condition of women. Her work eventually led
Penaluna to other remarkable women philosophers of the era: Mary
Astell, Catharine Cockburn and Mary Wollstonecraft.Together these
women rekindled Penaluna's love of philosophy and taught her how to
live a truly philosophical life. She combines memoir with biography
to tell the stories of these four women, weaving throughout an
alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for
beauty and truth. Formally inventive and keenly intelligent, How to
Think Like a Woman is a moving meditation on what philosophy could
look like if women were treated equally.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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