Maurice BlonchotModern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How...

Wang Keping Concise essays by a leading philosopher on Chinese views of harmony, love, enlightenment, life and death, etc. January 27, 2006 by Foreign Languages Press

Colin McGinn McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir,...

Mortimer J Adler For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). March 1, 1987 by Scribner Paper Fiction

Nikos KazanyzakisThe classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of...

Michael Walzer From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral...

Diane K Obson Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be...

Simone Weil Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God. Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and...

Bryan Magee Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly successful The Story of Philosophy traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in...

Francis Fukuyama In 1989, Francis Fukuyama began an explosive debate about the future of the world in the post-Cold War era with an article entitled `The End of History and...

Lao-Tzi This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation,...

Julian Baggini Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of...