The Invention of Creativity
It is an ambitious essay that analyses how creativity has shifted from being an exceptional quality—associated with artistic genius—to becoming an omnipresent social mandate. Throughout the book, it sharply...
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt (1963), a New York social psychologist, published this book in 2006, and the present edition (2026), introduced by José Luis Izquierdo, known as “Mago More” on social media, presents both as...
How to Talk to a Science Denier
It is a brief and combative essay that arises from a very specific concern: the growing social rejection of well-established scientific truths, from climate change to vaccines. Lee McIntyre does not write...
Mozart in motion. His work and his world in pieces
A disappointing biography if one is looking to learn about the composer’s life. It is more suitable for music lovers or scholars of the Salzburg composer’s music, as it attempts to explain Mozart’s life...
The rigtheous mind
Haidt is known for his sociological studies. In this case, he analyzes the morality of American society, which shares some similarities with our own, through cultural psychology. The author defines himself...
Inheritance
It is an ambitious essay that seeks to explain why the modern world—with its democracies, complex economies, organized religions, and powerful states—emerged as it did. The author draws on evolutionary...
The Dawn of Christianity
This book is particularly interesting because it provides numerous details drawn from historical and archaeological research, which help to situate Jesus within his social and cultural context. This...
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World
The author provides a detailed study of sources in an attempt to show what we can know about the Library of Alexandria. Its beginning seems to coincide with the Ptolemies, after the death of Alexander the...
Jean Barois
1. The Novel and Its Author
Jean Barois, published in 1913, is the novel that introduced Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) to the public, a writer representative of a French intelligentsia imbued...
Wittgenstein: A Family in Letters
The Wittgenstein family was one of the most well-known and powerful in early 20th-century Austria. The industrialist Karl Wittgenstein and his wife Leopoldine Kalmus had nine children, four of whom reached...