Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
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Category: Philosophy
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons i ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Philosophy
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething wit ...Show more
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher by John Sellars
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Category: Philosophy
There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant place in human history. It is the Lyceum, site of Aristotle's school- here the philosopher wandered, discussing his life's work with students, pr ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all.'The book that had the most impact on me' JANE GOODALL'Probably the single most influential document in the history of ... animal welfare' GUARDIANIn 1975, Animal Liberation started a global ...Show more
Stoic at Work: Ancient Wisdom to Make Your Job a Bit Less Annoying by Annie Lawson
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Category: Philosophy
A sharply observed workplace survival guide that spins 49 entertaining modern rules from the wisdom of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we ca ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more
The Shadows of Socrates - The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates by Matt Gatton
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Category: Philosophy
The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set up, who did it, and why. The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Eve ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more