An Opinionated Guide To London Architect The awakening
£16.00A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed the fall of the Roman empire in the West.
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How to be
£10.99A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?
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The new Leviathans
£20.00Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes’ cold political vision continues to see through any number of political and ethical vanities. In his stimulating book ‘The New Leviathans’, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors and disappointments through a new reading of Hobbes’ classic work.
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How to be
£25.00What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?
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How to think like a woman
£16.99As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions, its beauty. What Penaluna didn’t realize was that philosophy – at least the canon that’s taught in Western universities, as well as the culture that surrounds it – would slowly grind her down through its devaluation of women and their minds. ‘How to Think Like a Woman’ is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.
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The French mind
£12.99A sweeping tour of French history from the 17th century to the present day from the highly acclaimed author of The German Genius
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The French Mind
£30.00A sweeping tour of French history from the 17th century to the present day from the highly acclaimed author of The German Genius
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Nietzsche
£9.99Stefan Zweig’s insightful writings on one of the world’s most influential philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, going beyond the academic to reveal a unique portrait of a complex man.
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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard
£10.99Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence – how to be a human being in the world? – while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom – as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.
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WC Candide & Other Stories
£5.99Candide is the most famous of Voltaire’s ‘philosophical tales’, in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales – Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingênu, and The White Bull – and a verse tale based on Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale,: What Pleases the Ladies.