Philosophy & Ideas
In our Philosophy & Ideas list, multimillion-selling author Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic) makes Stoic philosophy accessible and actionable, while Robert Greene distils ancient wisdom into life lessons in The Law of the Sublime and the Venerable Bokyeong Sunim explores Zen wisdom in One Day a Cat Came to Me. Essential reading for anyone interested in Stoicism, ethics, existentialism and life’s big questions.
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
Simon Critchley
A provocative and timely exploration into tragedy from the curator of The New York Times philosophy column
The Lies That Bind
Kwame Anthony Appiah
From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are r…
Bodies
Susie Orbach
We may be the last generation to inhabit bodies not routinely reconstructed by surgical enhancements. Over the last decades, our body has become an in…
Tao: The Watercourse Way
Alan Watts
The last work by Alan Watts, Tao is the culmination of a lifetime's study and thought
The Age of Empathy
Frans de Waal
Empathy is not just a human trait – we can see it across the animal kingdom as a key element of evolutionary success
The Art of Logic
Eugenia Cheng
A practical, illuminating and timeless guide to thinking better, from a Royal Society Prize shortlisted mathematician – now in paperback
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
David Harvey
Marx's Capital explained by its greatest expositor in simple, understandable terms
You Talkin' To Me?
Sam Leith
A witty, elegant enquiry into the art of persuasion, updated for the witless, inelegant Trump era
Shapeshifters
Gavin Francis
Stories from the GP's waiting room, brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being
Chinese Horoscopes for Your Child
Theodora Lau
Chinese astrology can help anyone become a better parent by understanding the strengths and weaknesses of their child's lunar sign. Discover your…
What We Think About When We Think About Football
Simon Critchley
A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful game
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile
Roger Scruton
The ideas and principles of conservatism explored and explained by the world's leading thinker on the subject
Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile
Frank Close
An account of theories of everything in the past, present and future
Truth: Ideas in Profile
Simon Blackburn
One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
Roy Sorensen
An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities – from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns – found outside the classroom.