Philosophy

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...

Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...

Author: A. C. Grayling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...

Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...

Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its...

Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...

Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...

Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...

Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...

Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...

Author: Thomas Aquinas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied...

Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in...

Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars Aesthetics offers a...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the...

Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...

Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...

Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...

Author: Martin Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the...

Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming...

Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...

Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The bestselling and seminal work from one of our foremost commentators on religion. The idea of a single devine...

Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 An urgent review of the use and abuse of holy texts in today's world - and a call for...

Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...

Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...

Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...

Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what...

Author: James Norbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The charming, illustrated story of two friends, who travel through the seasons sharing the lessons they learn on their way; the...

Author: Viscount John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 An irresistible account of some of history's most illustrious - and iniquitous - figures, from one of...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...

Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....

Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a lively new translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and...

Author: Jonathan Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works...

Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...