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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 ...
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are ...
How do we know what we "know"? How did we --as individuals and as a society -- come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human ...
A classic collection of Bertrand Russells more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russells most characteristic and self-revealing books ...
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued ...
Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make ...
Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more ...
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language.
The ...
"Philosophy," Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, "should actually be written only as poetry." That Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus-Wittgenstein's masterwork, and the only book he published during his ...
In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence - everything in our existence points beyond ...
The second-century Greek physician Galen - the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates - is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer ...
One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century
Widely regarded as one of the most influential ...
This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone ...
