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Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers
A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic ...
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
-Plato
Have you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of ancient Greece? This ...
Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. 125 AD in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite ...
New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe
Assembled ...
Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe
'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be ...
Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and ...
Plato's riveting account of the trial and death of Socrates, in a new translation by Christopher Rowe
'Consider just this, and give your minds ...
Timaeus and Critias has a central place in Western thought and is best known to many for the story of Atlantis
Timaeus and Critias is ...
Volume two of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle's works-now fully revised and expanded
Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the ...
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking ...
A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS ...
A key anthology of early Western thought
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato ...
'A kind of mercurial elegy. . . Some extraordinary passion leaks through Barthes' lucid prose' Peter Ackroyd, Spectator
'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire ...