Ask our staff anything about our shop or products, or leave your feedback.
A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek
In the first century BC, Marcus ...
A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text
'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established ...
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century ...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades ...
Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness.
He argues that happiness ...
The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young ...
Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of ...
A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so ...
Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor ...
Two of Nietzsche's final and most devastating works
'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a ...
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like ...
One of the key works of existentialist thought
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also ...
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued ...
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?
Slavoj Zizek has long ...
The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and ...