Popular Philosophy

Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavors and...

From her secret hiding place in wartime Amsterdam, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote heart-wrenchingly about the terrors of a captivity that wou...

There is within all theological utterances something of the ridiculous, perhaps more so in Christianity, given its proclivity for the paradoxical a...

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Modernity rul...

Since 2010, The Stonethe immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in The New York Timeshas revived and re-interpreted age-old inquiries t...

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never l...

If you have a passion for philosophy, especially if youre interested by the possibility of conscious life after death, then this book is for you. L...

It is not words, song, or art that are tremendous, but the human soul, and what is set in motion when it is stirred to the depths.Where Epics Fail ...

Existentialism is backCarpe diem seize the day is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijack...

A GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READ 2017Brilliant. One of those rare books that forces you to ask what the hell youre doing with your life. George Monbiot...

'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Ri...

Offering a unique insight into human behaviour, this book explains why we behave the way we do and what happens when humans interact with the world...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true ha...

What does it mean to be a woman? Do women have a unique nature and a unique vocation? Should feminists work to help women specifically or to suppor...

Another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy from the master of the genre. This time Baggini applies ...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For A...

Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also - intermittently - the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is like...

Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the one point four kilos of matter insid...

For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, from Cloud cuckoo lan...

As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons,...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new c...

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell''s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help...

Socrates left no philosophical writings himself, but luckily he had a dog called Ted who faithfully learnt and interpreted his sayings. Through Ted...

The Way to Self-Development combines the life events of author George Kiourtzidis with the work of his great uncle and renowned 20th century philos...

In Dracula and Philosophy 24 nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles. John C. Altmann decides whether Dracula can r...

If you have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted or unworthy, this book is for you.Sometimes all it takes is a simple question to awaken the strength a...

Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollars new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provision...

'A simple yet powerful book that reaches straight to the heart.' John GrayWhen I Loved Myself Enough is a beautiful collection of wisdom that is s...

Life in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early twenty-first century presents us with many controversial ethical issues: abortion, poverty, online behavi...

Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas The Status Game might be his best yet James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times ...

Thoughtings is a poetry collection with a difference. The name 'Thoughtings' was inspired by a 5-year old who, when asked to explain what thinkin...

Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered ...

When it comes to living, theres no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being ...

This book is the first of three in the Covid-war series. It is a factual account timelined and written as a diary of events of the Covid-19 pandemi...

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of th...

The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation ...

In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. Because it''s there . Today the question why do this? is in...

Following on the success of the Verso diary, Verso are now launching a new, beautifully designed notebook. Inspired by the original covers of New L...

Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at...