Last night at Crni mačak, we held the fourth Rhythm&Book gathering of the year, featuring our author Goran Pećanac. ...
After the summer break, we’re back at Crni mačak on September 16 at 6 PM, with another one of our authors, for an ev...
On Sunday, August 30, at the age of 78, distinguished Croatian writer, playwright, novelist and essayist Slobodan...
A review of Predrag Finci’s Journeys of the Soul, written by Jaroslav Pecnik, has been published by Novi magazin. The r...
“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have known the full extent of the truth: today, biologists estimate a stunning three-quarters of all animal species on Earth undergo some form of metamorphosis. But why do tadpoles transform into frogs, caterpillars into butterflies, elvers into eels, immortal jellyfish from sea sprigs to medusae and back again, growing younger and younger in frigid ocean depths? Why must creatures go through massive destruction and remodeling to become who they are? Tracing a path from Aristotle to Darwin to cutting-edge science today, Harman explores that central mystery. Metamorphosis, however, isn’t j...
In expectation of the next edition of the House of Good Books: Trump and the Philosophers by the Norwegian philosopher Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, for the book of the month we chose an interesting study by the same author.
Most people have no doubt that a dog is happy when it waves its tail or that a cat is happy when it spins around. But how do the animals we are surrounded with really think? Can we really understand them? Lars Fr. H. Svendsen has written a book on understanding animals with examples and discussions from the history of philosophy - from the French philosopher, who feels ashamed when he stands naked in the bathroom and the cat looks at him, to philosophical questions such as whether animals have morals and can be lonely... Do we understand animals? This is an instructive, entertaining and witty book about animals and whether it makes sense to attribute human characteristics to them.
