Philosophy

Stillness is the Key

Ryan Holiday 2024
(4.5)

Throughout history, there's been one indelible quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The...

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

Will Durant 2024
(4.5)

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers, from Plato to Dewey. Few write for the...

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard 2024
(4.5)

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought.The publication of Simulacra...

The Obstacle is the Way

Ryan Holiday 2024
(4.5)

We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifeti...

The Precipice by Toby Ord

Toby Ord 2024
(4.5)

Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at...

Staying with the Trouble

Donna J. Haraway 2024
(4.5)

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new...

Meditations: The Philosophy Classic

Marcus Aurelius 2024
(4.5)

A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as “The Philosopher” Meditations is a...

The Republic (Диалози #3) by Plato

Plato 2024
(4.5)

Famous philosophical treatise of the 4th century BC concerns itself chiefly with the idea of justice, as well as such Pl...

The Meaning of Things

A.C. Grayling 2024
(4.5)

A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers i...

The Kybalion (The Essential Wisdom Library)

Three Initiates 2024
(4.5)

The most popular occult work of the twentieth century--now in a hardbound edition that evokes the original volume, with...

Great Ideas On the Shortness of Life

Seneca 2024
(4.5)

Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas seriesThe writings of the ancient Rom...

The Symposium by Plato

Plato 2024
(4.5)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other....

Great Ideas Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus 2024
(4.5)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other....

The Art of War by Sun Tzu Free

Sun Tzu 2024
(4.5)

Classic fiction. Readers will love reading their favourite classics in this new Collins Classics series.'Opportunities m...

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault 2024
(4.5)

Before the early 19th century, European ideas of crime and punishment tended to involve very public displays of the powe...

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Simon Blackburn 2024
(4.5)

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for...

A Guide to the Good Life

William B Irvine 2024
(4.5)

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we...

The Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine 2024
(4.5)

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to t...

The Last Days of Socrates

Plato 2024
(4.5)

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and d...

The Republic (Диалози #3)

Plato 2024
(4.5)

Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogu...

Letters, 1925-1975 by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt 2024
(4.5)

When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest y...

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley 2024
(4.5)

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations o...

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts

Alan Watts 2024
(4.5)

We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to la...

The Socrates Express

Eric Weiner 2024
(4.5)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following...

Tao Te Ching

Laozi 2024
(4.5)

The most widely translated work in world literature after the Bible, Tao Te Ching or The Bo...

Discourses and Selected Writings

Epictetus 2024
(4.5)

Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in...