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Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas
Written by an intellectual Roman ...
To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons ...
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private ...
A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as The Philosopher Meditations is a series of personal journals written ...
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how ...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'I must die. But must I die bawling?'
What does it mean to live a virtuous ...
One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is so much bullshit. Yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit ...
Professor Angie Hobbs proves in this persuasive and intelligent book that Plato is more relevant than ever.
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work ...
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs- Seneca is never less than ...
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 ...
More than a century after its composition, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus-Wittgenstein's first masterwork, and the only book he published during his lifetime-endures as the definitive modern ...
'Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven in the spring at the earth.' Soren Kierkegaard ...
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing ...
'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful ...
The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. Â “Some things are up to us and some are not.” ...