Philosophers Who Changed History by Simon Blackburn
Category: Philosophy
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each philosopher, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts, Philosophers Who Changed History o ...Show more
Meditations The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius; Robin Waterfield
Category: Philosophy
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. As featured on the Today Show Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
Category: Philosophy
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
Category: Philosophy
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
Nietzsche (The Great Philosophers) by Ronald Hayman
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth ce ...Show more
Marx (The Great Philosophers) by Terry Eagleton
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. M ...Show more
The Great Philosophers: Socrates by Anthony Gottlieb
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.'So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His word ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
Category: Philosophy
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
How to Do the Right Thing by Seneca
Category: Philosophy
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve-that we’ve been misjudged, short-changed, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that ...Show more
Fear and Trembling - A New Translation by S¿ren Kierkegaard; Bruce H. Kirmmse (Translator)
Category: Philosophy
First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ("John of Silence"), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, ...Show more
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger
Category: Philosophy
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Be ...Show more