Philosophy

How should I live?What is my purpose? Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There a...

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly int...

Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New ...

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world’s greatest masters of philosophy, religion...

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers ...

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a per...

Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with m...

The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the r...

A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal work  Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedric...

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argue...

The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosophe...

Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible intr...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in epistemolog...

One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.China's first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from sta...

FOUR MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'One of the greatest thinkers of the age' The Dalai Lama What is love?Who am I without my relationships? What ...

A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanese art of finding contentment ...

Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, p...

Four years into the unfolding of the most serious crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi's prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the d...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 't...