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What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan ...
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe
The bestselling, prizewinning ...
Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat ...
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of ...
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world.
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we ...
The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for ...
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted ...
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting
'Gaslighting' is suddenly in everyone's vocabulary. It's written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung ...
An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography of Scruton's many literary works over the years ...
An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer ...
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating ...
In 490 BCE the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary 26 mile run to deliver to the people of Athens news of their city ...
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds
For as long as we've studied the mind, we ...