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'A kind of mercurial elegy. . . Some extraordinary passion leaks through Barthes' lucid prose' Peter Ackroyd, Spectator
'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire ...
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his ...
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to ...
This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran.
In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus ...
Penguin Classics relaunch
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for ...
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose.
A major writer and a leading figure ...
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 penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear ...
Spinoza's greatest philosophical work.
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that ...
Nietzsche's final testament of his beliefs
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his ...
A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.
Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional ...
Aristotle's influential treatise on the way to win arguments
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 ...
Alan Ryan's anthology provides the perfect introduction to an enormously significant philosophical movement, aiming for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number"
One of ...
Hume's masterpiece on human nature, attacking traditional religious thought
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in ...
A collection of Bacon's vibrant, intelligent essays covering subjects ranging from ambition to the vicissitude of things
One of the major political figures of ...