Popular Philosophy

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

We make moral judgments about all sorts of things, both mundane and momentous. But are any of these moral judgments actually true? The moral error ...

What is the secret to lasting happiness? In The Stoicism Workbook, readers learn how thinking like Socrates and other Stoics-and using the Socratic...

This book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical...

This book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical...

Curiosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. This is the first to do so, with its twelv...

The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, whic...

Ever since it was first unleashed in 1818 the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired intense debate...

Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. the philosopher-king of comedy, and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty-five ph...

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek have been, like iek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, w...

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophyand what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of...

Having children is one of the biggest decisions youll make in your life. Increasingly, we arent making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reas...

The Anatomy of Justice argues for a reorientation in liberal egalitarian theorizing about justice. Gina Schouten argues that the orientation she pr...

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928--1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture--both movies directly based on hi...

To be someoneto be anyoneis aboutnot being someone else. Millers amused and inspired book is utterly compelling.Adam PhillipsA compendium of expres...

A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Charming and brilliant. Times Literary Supplement Provocative, stimulating, wisethe book that our succe...

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the central ideas of politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and...

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' ...

From the ethicist the New Yorker calls the most influential living philosopher, a new way of thinking about living ethicallySingers argument is pow...

Plato's dialogues, featuring his famous mentor Socrates, often prove difficult to understand for many contemporary readers. Students today miss the...

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.Drew Afualo is best known as the internets 'Cr...

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...