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The Anatomy of Melancholy
A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times , New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A...
How the World Made the West: 'World history at its best' Simon Sebag
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times / Sunday Times, Observer , Economist, Guardian , BBC History Magazine, i-paper, Novara Media and History Today ' Quinn has done a...
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery...
Goethe: A Life in Ideas
A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying...
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: v. 5
Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During...
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide
Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything - even his own physical existence. Most people also know that he said, 'I think, therefore I...
Augustine the African: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025
Augustine of Hippo is one of the world's most influential theologians, an early Christian writer whose work shaped the course of Western philosophy. Born in Numidia in 354 CE, Augustine's...
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language
'Ingenious... a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a...
Kant's Empirical Psychology
Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are...
The Anatomy of Melancholy
A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language
'Ingenious... a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a...
Conversations with Goethe
A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
The Complete Essays
The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed; he studies humanity through poetry, love and ectasy - but also through cannibalism and war-horses...
Selected Writings
Brings together the major writings of the great Italian philosopher. In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with...
City of God
One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
'Ree, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy ought to be' (Prospect) This fresh and brilliant history of how...
Utopia
New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in...
Utopia
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 evils, that's no reason to turn your...
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating...
Kantian Conceptual Geography
Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...