Popular Philosophy

A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for t...

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called the rainbow colours around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges sc...

Many of us are quiet geniuses at the art of procrastination. We tend to feel so guilty about everything we havent done yet (and the hours frittered...

Many books have sought to introduce the writings of the infamous and influential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Get Over Yourself puts matte...

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a q...

Originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Step program now provides life direction for the millions of people worldwide who are reco...

This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends...

Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years. He appeared in more than 200 feature films--from Ham...

'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy love it!' Elif ShafakWhere are the women philosophers? The answer is r...

'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraThe spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from...

When do we become adults? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward  or keep us stuck? These are the questi...

Michael Foley, the author of bestselling The Age of Absurdity, wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyo...

In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting leaves the ivory tower to tackle difficult questions in everyday life and shows how philosophy can be used ...

The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. I...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economi...

Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today''s world and in our past.''A vivid per...

What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Be...

The definitive guide to yoga in everyday life from B.K.S. Iyengar, the worlds most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his...

Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dra...

The second edition of a unique introductory text, offering an account of the logical tradition in philosophy and its influence on contemporary scie...

This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural and philosophical topics. But running through all the material...

In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting leaves the ivory tower to tackle difficult questions in everyday life and shows how philosophy can be used ...

This accessible handbook from design guru Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. I...

The ancient warrior culture of Japan produced a sophisticated martial philosophy that we know today as Bushidothe Way of the Warrior. In Samurai Wi...

Mirio Cosottini dedicates his book Playing with silence to everyone who loves silence and its multiple facets. In this volume, he advances a series...

How to know that you exist. How to be an object of desire. How to think like a bat. How to bring meaning to life. From the realm of the unconsci...

A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of ...

Everyone can run. Whether it is a jog around the park on a Sunday morning, or lining up with 40,000 other people at the start of the London Maratho...

We live in a world filled with cliche-convenient assumptions and unquestioned conclusions that many of us use without giving them a second thought....

The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fr...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the ...

How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy, easily the best-known thinker under sixty in France? It w...

How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nat...

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone''s a cynic, yet few...

Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and co...

What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?Love Voltaire U...

In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer'...