Popular Philosophy

The Work of Enchantment suggests that it is a lack of enchantment in rich, developed countries that causes soul-starved Westerners to experience me...

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radicall...

'Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath' - EVENING STANDARD'Open-air theatre between two covers, powered by strength of character and ...

Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Rangan Chatterjee reveals how to make positive change that actually lasts in his latest, most innovative book to...

This collection of 18 chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black. The show...

Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows ...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionImagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give m...

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by ...

In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelbergs The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a ...

When the axiom that nothing is guaranteed rings truer now than everand to millennials and Gen Z alikeits no surprise that stoicism is taking hold a...

A history of philosophy in twelve thinkersThe whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is a...

At least since Athenian trade sanctions helped to spark the Peloponnesian War, economic coercion has been a prominent tool of foreign policy. In th...

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the prese...

David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through...

Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we are at our bes...

Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers t...

Brought to you by Penguin.The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, ...

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is...

In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lea...