Popular Philosophy

An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a soc...

Does a doughnut hole exist? What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Can the baker, who only bakes for those who don't bake for themselves, bake for herse...

Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature pla...

Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 an...

Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience. A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind...

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuo...

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuo...

Tracing the thread of decreation in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the o...

'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' - Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of LivingWe are all dressed. But how often do we paus...

Today, Im starting a rent a person who does nothing service . . . Except for very simple conversation, Im afraid I can do nothing.Shoji Morimoto wa...

More than ever before, a new philosophy of life is required in this world. A concrete perspective to build the New World. Whoever manipulates - in ...

One of the things we all deeply crave, and all richly deserve, is a more exciting life. We know well enough that many things have to be routine, ha...

'An erudite and charming book . . . both a primer and a paean to one of the central texts of Buddhism, known as the Heart Sutra. . . Alex Kerr delv...

As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right ans...

Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume ...

Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume ...

At the center of a constellation of key ideas in East Asian philosophical traditions, there lies a conception of oneness among human beings. Human ...

'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm...

What can freedom really mean?'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her gen...

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biogr...

Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, ...

The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answer...