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A vibrant new translation of Seneca's 'On the Shortness of Life', a pointed reminder to make the most of our time.
Who doesn't ...
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity.
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers ...
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato ...
From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, comes the "best of" conversations from the internationally popular podcast Making Sense.
"Civilization ...
A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as The Philosopher Meditations is a series of personal journals written ...
The Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live ...
Considered othe Voltaire of his timeo, Bertrand Russell was a fearless iconoclast who stood unbowed before political and religious leaders; his disdain for conventional thinking ...
The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau
In a short period - from ...
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas
Seeing self-possession as the key ...
Written by an intellectual Roman ...
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin ...
Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay
Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present ...
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how ...
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and ...
Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest ...