Philosophy

John Sellars Paperback 96 pages How can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives?In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In L...

Plato Hardback 560 pages The Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practit...

Plato Hardback 592 pages Platonic forms of love. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, w...

Albert Camus Paperback 192 pages The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics. In this profound and moving philosophical statement, ...

Softback John Stuart Mill 480 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays-On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)-that illustrate Mill's l...

Robert Greene Paperback 464 pages Over the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motiva...

Susan Sontag Paperback 336 pages A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the def...

by Saigyo (Author) , Kamo no Chomei (Author) , Yoshida Kenko (Author) Paperback 112 pages 'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty ...

Epicurus Paperback 80 pages 'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - no...

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PaperbackPeter Kropotkin 'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a b...

HardbackArthur Schopenhauer One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and...

HardbackLucretius - (Introduction by Richard Jenkyns) One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks. Lucretius' poem On the...

HardbackFriedrich Engels - Karl Marx A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Ste...

Friedrich Nietzsche Hardcover One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that...

PaperbackNiccolo Machiavelli 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 and revo...

PaperbackPeter Singer 'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should li...

PaperbackAlbert Camus 'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak ou...

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 Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profo...

PaperbackSojourner Truth 'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave a...

PaperbackRoland Barthes Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and...

SoftbackHannah Arendt 'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be...

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