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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 ...
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas
Written by an intellectual Roman ...
Five hundred years after his death, Niccolo Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican ...
Isaiah Berlin was one of the great thinkers and most electrifying speakers of his time. A magnetic public intellectual and beacon of liberal philosophy, he ...
The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.
In these troubled times, even ...
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts ...
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of ...
Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell ...
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century ...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades ...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war ...
A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so ...
"[I]t is safer to be feared than loved".
These words embody the spirit of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy ...
One of the key works of existentialist thought
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also ...