by Alexandra David-Néel · Antígona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726080923
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«Pela Vida» is the philosophical essay by Alexandra David-Néel, published by Antígona in 1997 in paperback (104 pages, in Portuguese).
Inaugural work by Alexandra David-Néel, written when she was barely over twenty: it argues that obeying is equivalent to dying and that every moment of submission to another's will is erased from one's own life. Her critique of honour, patriotism and other secular virtues anticipates the journey that would take her across Asia for over three decades.
The original title is «Pour La Vie»; the text was written in 1898. The Portuguese edition is translated by Júlio Henriques.
For readers interested in philosophy, social criticism essays and in discovering the origins of Alexandra David-Néel's thought.
Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. Her teachings influenced the beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the popularisers of Eastern philosophy Alan Watts and Ram Dass, and the esotericist Benjamin Creme.
