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Five hundred years after his death, Niccolo Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican ...
Isaiah Berlin was one of the great thinkers and most electrifying speakers of his time. A magnetic public intellectual and beacon of liberal philosophy, he ...
The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.
In these troubled times, even ...
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction
Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain ...
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts ...
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of ...
Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell ...
Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe
'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be ...
A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek
In the first century BC, Marcus ...
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 ...
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century ...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades ...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war ...
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 ...
The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young ...