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Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Plato's riveting account of the trial and death of Socrates, in a new translation by Christopher Rowe
'Consider just this, and give your minds ...
Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this ...
Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad ...
First published in 1910, Philosophical Essays is one of Bertrand Russells earliest works and marks an important period in the evolution of thought of one ...
Timaeus and Critias has a central place in Western thought and is best known to many for the story of Atlantis
Timaeus and Critias is ...
New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is ...
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking ...
A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS ...
Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world
In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the ...
The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M.A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number ...
'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 ...
Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas ...
