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'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of ...
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What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?
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'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions ...
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be ...
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 ...
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life?
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From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds
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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 ...
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 ...