Category - Philosophy

"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters)....

Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in h...

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have ha...

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are exper...

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experience...

A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artis...

This 1790 polemic by one of philosophy's most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of ...

Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic fl...

The great 19th-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his most important works, a fascinating exami...

In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He identifies practical and aestheti...

The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheisti...

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited va...

Diogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior wer...

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," Nietzsche's most personal book—and one of his bestA Penguin ClassicThe Joyous Science—also know...

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, tec...

The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.   The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the autho...

Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophica...

Kant and the Claims of Taste, here published for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become since its initial publication in 19...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Gabriel soon finds himself at a secret...