Popular Philosophy

Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people. Discriminatory polic...

This excellent introduction to the essential issues that have preoccupied philosophers throughout the centuries provides fresh and engaging portrai...

This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden c...

How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Ha...

An engaging account of the titan of political philosophy and the development of his most important work, A Theory of Justice, coming at a moment wh...

A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic ...

We know, more intimately than anything else, what it’s like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage...

How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what...

RULES TO LIVE BY FOR WEALTH, HEALTH & HAPPINESS“There is a lot in this book that can turn lives around, towards fulfillment and happiness.”—The...

In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we ca...

This book, newly available in paperback, tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the e...

How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what...

For many liberals, the question “Do others live rightly?” feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: “Who am I to judge?...

Why read Kant’s Critique of Judgment today? Does this classic of aesthetic theory still possess the vitality to prompt those of us engaged with art...

In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Be...

Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever...

“Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago,...

  Before the good life was reduced to a bottle of Prozac, it was philosophers who offered answers to the most fundamental questions about who we a...

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?Slavoj Žižek has long been a commentator ...

In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccent...

What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by ...

This "fascinating new book" (The New Yorker) shows how our digital way of life makes us overvalue some ways of processing information over others a...

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contempo...

Here, philosophers wittily and expertly uncover amazing philosophical insights from the endlessly fascinating TV show, It's Always Sunny in Philade...

Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the...

We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are t...

A threat to humanity portending the end of our species lurks in the cold recesses of space. Our only hope is an eleven-year-old boy. Celebrating t...

This entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don't. He sees the world in a different way, a...

Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne--human survivors of a zombie apocalypse--don't know much about philosophy, but philosophical id...

"I'm getting something," says Shawn, assuming a look of intense concentration and pressing his fingertips to the sides of his head. Shawn Spencer u...