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In 1938, a year after his death in Spain at the age of thirty, Christopher Caudwell's Studies in a Dying Culture was published, to be followed eleven years later by a second volume, Further Studies...

A work powerful and pervading in its implications not only for metaphysics but also for art, political science, and the philosophy of history.

A bold meditation on endurance as interruption rather than progress, offering a radical rethinking of time, agency, and survival. On Persistence is an exploration into the elusive, unruly force of...

"Why have so many philosophers risked their lives for their vocation? Why have reigning authoritarian rulers been so keen to silence them? This book frames the philosophical search for wisdom as part...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,...

Offers the student a well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and more.

"An accessible primer on aesthetics in art and everyday life, written by artist and scholar Walead Beshty. In this general guide to the foundations of aesthetics, Walead Beshty introduces the...

Draws on a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy, to examine the imaginary boundaries people have drawn around themselves and other cultures and to challenge people...

In El anticristo, Friedrich Niezsche presents his sharpest critique of Judeo-Christian morality. Under attack are compassion, weakness, and the beliefs that came to constitute Western society after...

A LUCID, BALANCED INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE'S LIFE AND THOUGHT Translated into English for the first time, Mazzino Montinari's classic introduction to Nietzsche is remarkable for its clarity,...

`There is a rather ironic turn of events in store for philosophy in this and the next few decades if the conception of the philosophy of language presented in this monograph correctly represents the...

A master piece of dramatic dialogue, Plato has few rivals, and in The Symposium he is at his most incisive and entertaining.

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Talebs landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a...

"Finally I understand what it is I've been laughing at all these years."--Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of...

On October 25, 1946, in Cambridge, England, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face-to-face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted just ten minutes, and did not go well. Their loud...

McCawley supplements his earlier book--which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic--with new material on the logic of...