The Bed of Procrustes

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The Bed of Procrustes

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4198-502-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141985022

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 176

Fecha de publicación: 2016-10-27

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Bed of Procrustes

Editorial: random_house_trade_paperbacks

ISBN: 978-08-1298-240-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780812982404

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 208

Fecha de publicación: 2016-10-25

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

The Bed of Procrustes

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4196-924-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141969244

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 160

Fecha de publicación: 2010-12-02

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Primera publicación: 2010-12-02

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.