Popular Philosophy

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara and how they can te...

Fair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lad...

A political philosopher dissects the duties and dilemmas of the unelected spokesperson, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Greta Thunberg.Political r...

A pioneering history of incarceration in Western political thought. The prison as we know it is a relatively new institution, established on a lar...

A comprehensive journey through the history of meaning, from antiquity to modern day. The word meaning appears often in our daily lives: religious...

Our parents are a huge deal: no matter what our relationship to them happens to be, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes ...

For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Ep...

Course Correction engages in deliberation about what the twenty-first-century university needs to do in order to re-find its focus as a protected p...

The work of Carlo Michelstaedter (18871910) was the first to analyze modernist philosophy in strict connection with social changes in mass society....

In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on lifes Big Questions. Topic...

Need a rental person who does nothing?Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him ...

Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life in their h...

Mark Vernon offers penetrating insights on the idea of friendship, using philosophy and modern culture to ask about friendship and sex, work, polit...

The Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks shares his twelve key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking in...

In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world-spaces of...

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Le...