Philosophy

PaperbackNiccolo Machiavelli Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other

PaperbackOscar Wilde 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as

PaperbackAristotle 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man ble

PaperbackRoland Barthes Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a speci

Sarah Bakewell Paperback 448 pages Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over ap

Author: Graham Harman, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 416

Author: Jana Schaich Borg, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304

Author: Mark Rowlands, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 192

Author: Erling Kagge, Cover: Softback, Pages: 160

Author: Sun Tzu, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224

Author: Richard Sennett, Cover: Softback, Pages: 256

Author: Ryan Holiday, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352

For that friend who agrees that “searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook.”

Hardback Cicero Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, po

Mark Tuitert Hardback 144 pages Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoics provides the essential tools you need to navigate the modern world

Plato Hardback 592 pages Platonic forms of love. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range a

Audre Lorde Paperback 128 pages Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking wri

Susan Sontag Paperback 336 pages A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking,

Paperback 128 pages A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack

HardbackArthur Schopenhauer One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is dete