The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes by Joseph Jacobs, Baltasar Gracián
The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes

Joseph Jacobs, Baltasar Gracián

The Art of Worldly Wisdom with active TOC and footnotes

Joseph Jacobs, Baltasar Gracián with Baltasar Gracián (Translator)

129 pages first pub 1647 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Gracián's style, generically called conceptism, is characterized by ellipsis and the concentration of a maximum of significance in a minimum of form, an approach referred to in Spanish as agudeza (wit), and which is brought to its extreme in the O...

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