The Bed of Procrustes (ePub)
Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and...
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In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form.
Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched.
Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts - we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected - and accepting what we don't know - can we see the world as it really is.
- Autor: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 2010, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN-10: 0141969245
- ISBN-13: 9780141969244
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2010
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Grösse: 0.64 MB
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